Excerpt from Historical Souvenir and Book of the Pageants: Of the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of Quebec, the Ancient Capital of Canada At the moment when Columbus returned from his mar vellons first voyage, Spain and France were about to enter upon their bitter contest for European supremacy. The New World had been discovered by an Italian navigator sailing from the port of Palos in a Spanish barque. But when once America was disclosed to the eyes of Europe, each nation with ships and sailors began to dream of lands lying beyond the sunset. If Spain enjoyed an advantage at the start, no state could preserve a monopoly of westward exploration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.