VI PREFACE. A good deal of matter not generally known, will, it is thought, be found in it. Nearly all the accounts which it contains, of voyages to Florida, and some of the other accounts, have been translated from “Voy ages, relations et memoires originaux pour servir a I’histoire de la decouverte de L’Amerique, publies pour la premiere fois en Fra^ais, par H. Ternaux.” From 1837 to 1841, twenty volumes were published in Ternaux’s Collection, all of which have been exa mined in the preparation of this volume, so far as their connection with the subject made it proper. Richmond, August 1848.
