Note 866 — Chapter VIII

A Short Discovery of the Coast and Continent of America, from the Equinoctial Northward, by William Castle (Castell), Minister of the Gospel at Courtenhall, Northamptonshire, England, 1644; reprinted in Collection of Voyages and Travels, and compiled from the Library of the late Earl of Oxford, 1745. It states very oddly that, “Near the great North River the Dutch have built a castle ... for their more free trading with many of Florida, who usually come down the River Canada, and so by land to them,—a plain proof Canada is not far remote.” The mouth of Delaware Bay is according to Castle under 41° north latitude. [Extracts are printed in 2 N. Y. Hist. Coll., iii. 231. The book itself is in Harvard College Library; also in the O’Callaghan Catalogue, no. 561.—Ed.]