Excerpt from History of Discovery and Exploration on the Coasts of the United States Menendez died in the year 1574, soon after his return from Florida. His forts and colonies were deserted, and it may be said that with him ended the age of Spanish expeditions on the Atlantic coast. 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.