Verrazano the Navigator: Or, Notes on Giovanni Da Verrazano and on a Planisphere of 1529 Illustrating His American Voyage in 1524

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Argus Company, printers, Albany, 1874 - 159 páginas
 

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Página 78 - ROBINSON (Conway) An account of discoveries in the west until 1519, and of voyages to and along the Atlantic coast of North America, from 1520 to 1573. Prepared for " The Virginia historical and philosophical society," and published by the society : 8vo large — Richmond, printed by Shepherd & Colin, 1848 ; deposited by William Maxwell.
Página 42 - XXX of their little barges, with innumerable people, who passed from one shore and the other in order to see us. In an instant, as is wont to happen in navigation, a gale of unfavorable wind blowing in from the sea, we were forced to return to the ship, leaving the said land with much regret because of its commodiousness and beauty, thinking it was not without some properties of value, all of its hills showing indications of minerals.
Página 52 - Secondly, that master John Verazanus, which had been thrise on that coast, in an olde excellent mappe which he gaue to King Henrie the eight, and is yet in the custodie of master Locke, doth so lay it out...
Página 158 - An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Documents concerning a Discovery in North America claimed to have been made by Verrazzano.
Página 95 - Ensayo Cronologico para la Historia General de la Florida, por Don Gabriel de Cardenas z Cano (anagram for Don Andreas Gonzales Barcia), Madrid, 1723, pp. 36-151. the Memorial of Meras in the first volume. In place of following a chronological arrangement the editor has grouped his material under the headings of "Letters of P. Menendez de Aviles.
Página 141 - ... the Oregon bill had a direct bearing on the fortunes of candidates for the republican nomination as president is shown by a confidential letter to Governor Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, at this time a receptive candidate for the nomination, written by a republican member of the house of representatives and now in the possession of the New York Historical Society. It is dated February 14, 1859, at Washington City, the same day the bill was signed by the president. This letter says: We have had a time...
Página 151 - Relazione sopraccennata, conservasi manoscritta una Narrazione cosmografica assai bene distesa di tutti i paesi ch'egli avea in quel viaggio osservati, e da essa raccogliesi ch' egli ancora avea formato il disegno di tentar per que'mari il passaggio all'Indie orientali.
Página 52 - Indians aforesaide, and by Urdaneta, the Frier of Mexico. Also divers have offered the like, unto the Frenche King, who hath sent two or three times to have discovered the same.
Página 141 - ... due to the French under Jacques Cartier, and which could properly belong to no other exploration of the French." This statement was made in rebuttal of that by Brevoort in his Verrazano the Navigator (p. 141), where he says that "the first published map containing traces of Verrazano's exploration is in the Ptolemy of Basle, 1530, which appeared four years before the French renewed their attempts at American exploration. It shows the western sea without a name, and the land north of it called...
Página 76 - Cabote, in the vi. booke of the thyrde Decade. But Cabote touched only in the north corner and most barbarous parte hereof, from whense he was repulsed with Ise in the moneth of July.

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