the year the whole atlantic coast of the northern continent had been brought to the knowledge of by the voyages of it was not however until after that any permanent were made in any portion of this vast territory thus more than a century between the discovery of the continent and the first establishment of european colonies upon it it must not be supposed however that the new world was neglected or forgotten during all this time by the nations of europe on the contrary it was an object of great interest during the whole first attempts at period and a great many of were made and many were sent out with means and preparation for establishing but all these attempts failed thus before any actual and successful was effected more than one years were spent in i causes op these failures � � � � tbe cause of these failures was mainly that the � � and people of europe in making them were advancing altogether upon the wrong track they were acting on mistaken principles instead of regarding the new continent in its true light as a vast domain of fertile land the value of which consisted in its to produce fruits and grain and to feed herds of sheep and oxen by which of men might maintain themselves in comfort and gradually rise to through profit derived from agricultural labor from commerce and the arts � the only ideas which possessed them in the which they were continually fitting out were the two wholly ideas of finding mines of gold or silver or else of discovering a passage to india which they thought would be almost equally a source of wealth by them to bring to first attempts at europe in their ships rich of gems pearls and other precious so long as these were the objects which thej had in view they could not but be disappointed and in all their attempts for there were no mines of gold or silver existing in any part of the continent accessible to them nor were there any through the american shores by which it was possible to find a route by sea to india de there were however some exceptions to the rule in respect to the motives which led to the first attempts to establish colonies in america and it is remarkable that the first actual settlement of a community of on these shores was a religious enterprise de was a french prince who lived in the time of charles ix during whose reign a terrible conflict between the and the took place which terminated finally in the almost complete of the by the of st himself in the end was murdered by a mob and afterward hanged upon a it was during the time that was in the height of his power as one of the great leaders first attempts at that he conceived the idea of a colony of � or as they were then called upon some portion of the american continent s attempt the first experiment that was made under the of de to establish a colony in the new world was committed to the charge of a certain adventurer named indeed it seems to have been himself who proposed the plan while furnished the means of carrying it into execution his design was he said to found a kingdom in the new world where the could be free from the cruel which they in europe and live in peace accordingly furnished him with ships and with a considerable company of men and he set sail from the port now called his was overtaken by a storm very soon after leaving port and was driven back up the channel and in the end forced to take refuge in here quite a number of the men satisfied with the hardships and which they had already endured deserted with the rest put to sea again and finally reached the south coast of first attempts at where he undertook to found a settlement but he proved to be wholly unfit to have the charge of such an undertaking he chose a place for his settlement where no water was to be obtained he quarrelled with his men and quarrelled with the natives he allowed his little community to become distracted with religious in regard to the questions in dispute between and the other leaders and so important were these points of in their view that they actually made arrangements for sending a of their number to europe to refer their to the german churches for settlement while remained in south america his colony received one strong which was sent out to him from france by with this new arrival there came six children who were sent out to learn the indian language and two ministers there were also five young women in the party who came out under the charge of a matron and there were two or three hundred men was much pleased at the arrival of this he received the ministers with an appearance of very devout satisfaction and made arrangements for divine service on the very day of the landing and i � i first attempts at ment of the lord s supper himself with great solemnity but his conduct in dealing with his men did not correspond very well with these outward professions of piety he treated them with great and cruelty and on the whole his affairs so seriously that before long the community became completely and the colony was in the end entirely broken up portions of the company escaped at different times and in ways but in the end all that survived made their way back to france john the next attempt which was made by the prince de to establish a colony in america interests us more directly as on this occasion it was a point on the coast of the united states which was selected as the 