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Menendez Marques explored more of FL
Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558
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He [Menendez Marques] also went out to explore the coasts in the year 1573, for the purpose of marking out the ports, bays, rivers, bars, and shoals, so that by this means the Spaniards might be aided by the knowledge of the way to sail those seas. He started from Martyrs' Head in 25°, and sailed as far as the bay of Santa Maria, in 36° 30', keeping an itinerary and diary of his voyage. 25. [Bolton note: Santa Maria Bay, reached by Marques, was the Chesapeake. The report prepared by Marques was lost, and we have had access only to the fragment or summary given by Barcia. This author tells us that Marques had no cosmographer and consequently prepared no maps (Barcia, Ensayo Cronoldgico, 147148; Lowery, Florida, 381; Buidfaz, La Florida, II, 731; Connor, Menendez de Avilis, 246.)]
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