Travels at home, and voyages by the fire-side [by C. Lloyd].Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown ... and Richard Rees, 1815 |
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Travels at home, and voyages by the fire-side [by C. Lloyd]. Charles Lloyd Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1815 |
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Side 15 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Side 196 - Lawrence, however, on the contrary, is no less than ninety miles wide at its mouth, and it is navigable for ships of the line as far as Quebec, a distance of 400 miles from the sea.
Side 237 - Somerset, that as soon as a slave sets his foot on English ground he becomes free.
Side 43 - ... continent of America, near the mouth of the Orinoco. In 1502, he made a fourth and last voyage, in which he explored some part of the shores of the Gulph of Mexico. The ungrateful return he met with from his country is well known : worn out with fatigue, disappointment, and sorrow, he died at Valladolid, on the 20th of May, 1506, in the fifty-ninth year of his age.