Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1832 - 444 sider |
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... tion that the discovery was made about five o'clock in the morning of the 24th June ? If , however , this is questioned as being conjectural , the fact that Se . bastian must have seen the inscription is sufficient to render the ...
... tion that the discovery was made about five o'clock in the morning of the 24th June ? If , however , this is questioned as being conjectural , the fact that Se . bastian must have seen the inscription is sufficient to render the ...
Side 24
... tion . The letters are directed to John Kabotto , Ve- netian , and permit him to sail with six ships " to the land and isles of late found by the said John in our name and by our commandment . " * It presents a sin- gular picture of the ...
... tion . The letters are directed to John Kabotto , Ve- netian , and permit him to sail with six ships " to the land and isles of late found by the said John in our name and by our commandment . " * It presents a sin- gular picture of the ...
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... tion is conveyed , there is no reason to doubt that the general sketch of the voyage is correct ; and it establishes the important fact , that as early as 1498 , the coast of North America , from the latitude of 56 ° or 58 ° north to ...
... tion is conveyed , there is no reason to doubt that the general sketch of the voyage is correct ; and it establishes the important fact , that as early as 1498 , the coast of North America , from the latitude of 56 ° or 58 ° north to ...
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... tion : On the 15th May 1501 , Cortereal departed on a second voyage with a determination to pursue his discovery , and , as we may plausibly conjec- ture , to return with a new cargo of slaves and tim- ber ; but he was never again heard ...
... tion : On the 15th May 1501 , Cortereal departed on a second voyage with a determination to pursue his discovery , and , as we may plausibly conjec- ture , to return with a new cargo of slaves and tim- ber ; but he was never again heard ...
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... tion paid to architectural arrangement , covered with tiles made of clay , of excellent workmanship , and effectually protected from the wind and rain . On one subject alone they showed suspicion , being extremely jealous of the least ...
... tion paid to architectural arrangement , covered with tiles made of clay , of excellent workmanship , and effectually protected from the wind and rain . On one subject alone they showed suspicion , being extremely jealous of the least ...
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Side 266 - 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.
Side 195 - 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.
Side 138 - ... 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...
Side 329 - 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,...
Side 351 - 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.
Side 329 - 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.
Side 138 - 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...
Side 326 - NARRATIVE OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE IN THE POLAR SEAS AND REGIONS.
Side 25 - ... of great rivers they found, which certainly could not proceed from an island. They report that this land is thickly peopled, and that the houses are built of very long beams of timber, and covered with the skins of fishes. They have brought hither along with them seven of the inhabitants, including men, women, and children ; and in the other caravel, which is looked for every hour, they are bringing fifty more. These people, in color, figure, stature, and expression, greatly resemble gypsies.
Side 329 - ... before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest; seeming particularly attached to those prodigious cypress swamps, whose crowded giant sons stretch their bare and blasted or moss-hung arms midway to the skies. In these almost inaccessible recesses, amid ruinous piles of impending timber, his trumpet-like note and loud strokes resound through the solitary savage wilds, of which he seems the sole lord and inhabitant.