An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Band 1editor; J. Ridgeway, 1795 - 485 Seiten |
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... equal to a third part of the inhabitable earth . Nearchus afferted , that it would take four months to march in a straight line from one extremity of India to the other . The journal of Marco Polo , who had proceeded towards the Eaft ...
... equal to a third part of the inhabitable earth . Nearchus afferted , that it would take four months to march in a straight line from one extremity of India to the other . The journal of Marco Polo , who had proceeded towards the Eaft ...
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... equal to the enterprise which he projected . His negociations with them proved as fruitless , as thofe in which he had been hitherto engaged ; for thefe noblemen were either as little convinced by Columbus's arguments as their fuperiors ...
... equal to the enterprise which he projected . His negociations with them proved as fruitless , as thofe in which he had been hitherto engaged ; for thefe noblemen were either as little convinced by Columbus's arguments as their fuperiors ...
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... equal . By listening with cagernefs to every accufation against Columbus , and encouraging not only the malcontent Spaniards , but even the Indians , to produce their grievances , real or imaginary , he fo- mented the fpirit of ...
... equal . By listening with cagernefs to every accufation against Columbus , and encouraging not only the malcontent Spaniards , but even the Indians , to produce their grievances , real or imaginary , he fo- mented the fpirit of ...
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... equal fate . His authority and remonftrances diffipated those wild ideas fuggefted by defpair . Nor had they time to recur , as they came foon within fight of the coast of Spain , when all their fears and fufferings ended . Columbus ...
... equal fate . His authority and remonftrances diffipated those wild ideas fuggefted by defpair . Nor had they time to recur , as they came foon within fight of the coast of Spain , when all their fears and fufferings ended . Columbus ...
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... equal to the ftation . The fquadron , like all thofe fitted out for discovery in the infancy of navigation , was extremely feeble , con- fifting only of three veffels , of neither burden nor force adequate to the fervice . As the ...
... equal to the ftation . The fquadron , like all thofe fitted out for discovery in the infancy of navigation , was extremely feeble , con- fifting only of three veffels , of neither burden nor force adequate to the fervice . As the ...
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