The Voyage of Verrazzano
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Cogswell. ] that is, 700 leaguesof unknown lands. " The exact point at which they left the coast, and to which theirdiscovery is thus stated to have extended, is given in thecosmography which follows the narrative, in these words: "In the voyage which we have made by order of your majesty, inaddition to the 92 degrees we ran towards the west from our point ofdeparture (the Desertas) before we reached land in the latitude of34, we have to count 300 leagues which we ran northeastwardly, and400 ne...arly east along the coast before we reached the 50TH PARALLELOF NORTH LATITUDE, the point where we turned our course from theshore towards home. BEYOND THIS POINT THE PORTUGUESE HAD ALREADYSAILED AS FAR AS THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, WITHOUT COMING TO THETERMINATION OF THE LAND. " That this latitude must be taken as correctly determined followsfrom the representation of the letter, that they took dailyobservations of the sun and made a record of them, so that nomaterial error could have occurred and remained unrectified for overtwenty-four hours; and from the presumption that they were ascapable of calculating the latitude as other navigators of thatperiod, sent on such purposes by royal authority, like JacquesCartier, whose observations, as the accounts of his voyage to thisregion show, never varied half a degree from the true latitude.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Cogswell. ] that is, 700 leaguesof unknown lands. " The exact point at which they left the coast, and to which theirdiscovery is thus stated to have extended, is given in thecosmography which follows the narrative, in these words: "In the voyage which we have made by order of your majesty, inaddition to the 92 degrees we ran towards the west from our point ofdeparture (the Desertas) before we reached land in the latitude of34, we have to count 300 leagues which we ran northeastwardly, and400 ne...arly east along the coast before we reached the 50TH PARALLELOF NORTH LATITUDE, the point where we turned our course from theshore towards home. BEYOND THIS POINT THE PORTUGUESE HAD ALREADYSAILED AS FAR AS THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, WITHOUT COMING TO THETERMINATION OF THE LAND. " That this latitude must be taken as correctly determined followsfrom the representation of the letter, that they took dailyobservations of the sun and made a record of them, so that nomaterial error could have occurred and remained unrectified for overtwenty-four hours; and from the presumption that they were ascapable of calculating the latitude as other navigators of thatperiod, sent on such purposes by royal authority, like JacquesCartier, whose observations, as the accounts of his voyage to thisregion show, never varied half a degree from the true latitude.
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