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History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North

History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North

Forster, Johann Reinhold

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ISBN10: 115035013X
ISBN13: 9781150350139
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 174
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.78 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786. Excerpt: ... tracks, or else merely with a general view to discover new countries. The limits we haye prescribed to ourselves in this work, confine us solely to the discoveries made in the North; notwithstanding which, we found it necessary to connect the thread cf our narration by the above introduction j and shall only observe, in addition to what we have just stated, that the attempts made to arrive at the Indies by a new and shorter route, have given rife to many voyages in the North. But many of those voyages of discovery have also originated in other causes, which we shall take occasion gradually to unfold one after the other. It will be necessary, however, for the sake of order, in treating of these discoveries, to arrange them under the heads of the different nations which have participated in them; we shall therefore here give a brief account of the Discoveries made by the English, Dutch, French, Danes, Russians, Spaniards, and Portuguese; and conclude the whole with some general physical, zoological botanical, mineralogical, and anthropological Observations, and with a few words concerning the probability there is of getting through the Northern Seas into the great Pacific Ocean. Major rerura mihi nascitur or Jo. Vine it. CHAP. I. Of the Discoveries made by the English in the North. ENGLAND, in the reign of Henry VII. aster the loss of all the countries which the Kings of England had possessed in France, and the long civil war that subsisted between the Houses of York and Lancaster, was still in a very weak state. The timorous, mistrustful, and co M m nomical nomical disposition of Henry, contributed in a special manner to the preservation of tranquillity at home and peace abroad. In consequence of this, commerce and manufactures increased greatly, a...

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