Discovery of North America-Early Voyages of the Portuguese, French, and Spaniards.
First Discovery of North America by John Cabot-Voyages of Sebastian Cabot-Of the Cortereals-Discovery of Labrador -French Discoveries-Voyages of Verazzano-Of Jacques Cartier-Discovery of Canada-Spanish Voyages of Discovery -Cortes-Ulloa-Alarchon-Viscaino.
WHEN we peruse the lives of such men as De Gama and Columbus, and consider the complicated difficulties overcome by these early navigators, their imperfect means, and the dark and defective state of their knowledge, it is difficult to repress astonishment at the success which attended their exertions, and the magnitude and splendour of their discoveries. In reflecting, indeed, upon so great a theme as the revelation of a new world, it becomes us to raise our minds from the region of second causes to the awful contemplation of that Almighty Being, who con