A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot With a Review of the History of Maritime Discovery
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" (Barrow, Chrono- logical History, p. 40, 41. ) " From his own account it appears that having employed nearly a year in this voyage, he had discovered between West and North- West, a Continent till then unknown to the rest of the world; that he ran along the coast upwards of eight hun- dred miles; that according to his conjecture this land lay near a region formerly ajpproached by the Venetians (an allusion to the voyages of the Zeni}, and almost at the North Pole, and that he was unable to pr...oceed further, &c. " (Dr Lardner's Cyclopaedia, Hist, of Maritime and Inland Discovery, vol. Ii. P. 139. ) Our criticism on this epitome of errors is confined to the original wrong-doer. Not only does Mr Barrow fall an un- resisting victim to the treachery of the monk, but, such is the influence of bad company, he himself is found taking, in his turn, rather dishonest liberties with his own guide. In the original, Cortereal is said to have passed along between six and seven hundred miles of the newly discovered coast without reaching its termination.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" (Barrow, Chrono- logical History, p. 40, 41. ) " From his own account it appears that having employed nearly a year in this voyage, he had discovered between West and North- West, a Continent till then unknown to the rest of the world; that he ran along the coast upwards of eight hun- dred miles; that according to his conjecture this land lay near a region formerly ajpproached by the Venetians (an allusion to the voyages of the Zeni}, and almost at the North Pole, and that he was unable to pr...oceed further, &c. " (Dr Lardner's Cyclopaedia, Hist, of Maritime and Inland Discovery, vol. Ii. P. 139. ) Our criticism on this epitome of errors is confined to the original wrong-doer. Not only does Mr Barrow fall an un- resisting victim to the treachery of the monk, but, such is the influence of bad company, he himself is found taking, in his turn, rather dishonest liberties with his own guide. In the original, Cortereal is said to have passed along between six and seven hundred miles of the newly discovered coast without reaching its termination.
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