Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1833 - 444 pàgines |
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... General Summary , ............... . Page 404 APPENDIX . REMARKS ON A LATE MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT , WITH A VINDICATION OF RICHARD HAKLUYT , ........... 417 ENGRAVINGS . MAP of the Northern Coasts of America , CONTENTS . 15.
... General Summary , ............... . Page 404 APPENDIX . REMARKS ON A LATE MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT , WITH A VINDICATION OF RICHARD HAKLUYT , ........... 417 ENGRAVINGS . MAP of the Northern Coasts of America , CONTENTS . 15.
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... for . The author has been unjustly severe in his animadversions on the labours of Hakluyt , of whom a brief Vindi- cation will be found at the end of this volume . bability attained by this course to India . * Animated JOHN CABOT . 19.
... for . The author has been unjustly severe in his animadversions on the labours of Hakluyt , of whom a brief Vindi- cation will be found at the end of this volume . bability attained by this course to India . * Animated JOHN CABOT . 19.
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... by Adams . bore the date of 1549 ; † at which time Sebastian * Hakluyt , vol . iii . p . 6. + Purchas ' Pilgrims , vol . iii . p . 807 . Cabot was in such great reputation at the court of 22 DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA.
... by Adams . bore the date of 1549 ; † at which time Sebastian * Hakluyt , vol . iii . p . 6. + Purchas ' Pilgrims , vol . iii . p . 807 . Cabot was in such great reputation at the court of 22 DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA.
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... a record of the rolls , furnished by the industrious Hakluyt , to discover an original document which sets the matter altogether at rest . This is the second commission for discovery , granted by Henry VII . on the BY JOHN CABOT . 23.
... a record of the rolls , furnished by the industrious Hakluyt , to discover an original document which sets the matter altogether at rest . This is the second commission for discovery , granted by Henry VII . on the BY JOHN CABOT . 23.
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... possible to doubt . See , in the Vindication of Hakluyt , the remarks on the er- rors of the biographer of Cabot in his chapter on this subject . " action . " With such dispositions we may easily JOHN CABOT KNIGHTED . 25.
... possible to doubt . See , in the Vindication of Hakluyt , the remarks on the er- rors of the biographer of Cabot in his chapter on this subject . " action . " With such dispositions we may easily JOHN CABOT KNIGHTED . 25.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 290 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Pàgina 203 - I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Pàgina 246 - Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance.
Pàgina 148 - ... do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country without...
Pàgina 163 - ... so cruelly wounded. On this request being made, one of the Indians hastily drew his spear from the place where it was first lodged, and pierced it through her breast near the heart. The love of life, however, even in this most miserable state, was so predominant, that though this might...
Pàgina 355 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour,...
Pàgina 391 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Pàgina 355 - Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
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Pàgina 148 - Women were made for labour; one of them can carry or haul as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night ; and in fact there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance...