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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
sooner known , than Leif , the son of Eric Redhead , who had an inordinate desire to acquire glory , like his father , by making discoveries and founding colonies , fitted out a vessel , carrying thirty-five men , and taking Biorn with him , set out for this newly-discovered country ! Having set sail , the -first land he saw was rockv and barren . Accordingly , he called it Helleland , or Rockland . Upon this he came to low landwith sand
a , a y bottom , which , however , was over-grown with wood ; on which account he named it Markland , or Woodyland . Two days after this he saw land again , and an island l ying before the northern coast of it . Here was a river , up which they sailed . The bushes on the banks of it bore sweet berries ; the temperature of the air was mild , the soil fertile , and the river well stored with fish , and particularlwith fine salmon '
y very . At last they came to a lake from which the river took its rise . Here they determined to pass the winter , which they accordingly did ; and in the shortest winter day , saw the sun eight hours above the horizon : this therefore supposes that the longest day ( exclusive of the dawn and twili ght ) must have been sixteen hours long . Hence again it followstha " this lace 'beino in
, . p - the 4 f , th degree of north latitude , in a south-westerl y direction from Old Greenland , must either be the river Gander , or the Bay of Exploits , in Newfoundland , or else some place on the northern coast of the Gulf of St . Lawrence . Here they ereCted several huts ; and they © ne day found m the thickets a German of the name of Tyrkeiy who had been missingmaking himself happy at having found
, very grapes , from which he told . them , in his country they used to make wine . Leif having tasted them , from this circumstance , which appeared to liim very remarkable , called the country WinJand dat Gode ; 7 . e . the Good Wine Country * . - [ To be continued . J
On Longevity.
ON LONGEVITY .
A VOLUME of Medical Enquiries and Observations , lately pub , _ hshed by Dr . Rush , pf Philadelphia , contains the following curious remarks on the probable causes of Longevity . fa An account of the state of the Body and Mind in old age ; with Observations on its Diseases , rind their Remedies ,
Most of the facts which I shall deliver upon this subject are the re , suit of observations made during the last five ' years , upon persons of both sexes , who had passed the Sqth year of their lives . J intended to
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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
sooner known , than Leif , the son of Eric Redhead , who had an inordinate desire to acquire glory , like his father , by making discoveries and founding colonies , fitted out a vessel , carrying thirty-five men , and taking Biorn with him , set out for this newly-discovered country ! Having set sail , the -first land he saw was rockv and barren . Accordingly , he called it Helleland , or Rockland . Upon this he came to low landwith sand
a , a y bottom , which , however , was over-grown with wood ; on which account he named it Markland , or Woodyland . Two days after this he saw land again , and an island l ying before the northern coast of it . Here was a river , up which they sailed . The bushes on the banks of it bore sweet berries ; the temperature of the air was mild , the soil fertile , and the river well stored with fish , and particularlwith fine salmon '
y very . At last they came to a lake from which the river took its rise . Here they determined to pass the winter , which they accordingly did ; and in the shortest winter day , saw the sun eight hours above the horizon : this therefore supposes that the longest day ( exclusive of the dawn and twili ght ) must have been sixteen hours long . Hence again it followstha " this lace 'beino in
, . p - the 4 f , th degree of north latitude , in a south-westerl y direction from Old Greenland , must either be the river Gander , or the Bay of Exploits , in Newfoundland , or else some place on the northern coast of the Gulf of St . Lawrence . Here they ereCted several huts ; and they © ne day found m the thickets a German of the name of Tyrkeiy who had been missingmaking himself happy at having found
, very grapes , from which he told . them , in his country they used to make wine . Leif having tasted them , from this circumstance , which appeared to liim very remarkable , called the country WinJand dat Gode ; 7 . e . the Good Wine Country * . - [ To be continued . J
On Longevity.
ON LONGEVITY .
A VOLUME of Medical Enquiries and Observations , lately pub , _ hshed by Dr . Rush , pf Philadelphia , contains the following curious remarks on the probable causes of Longevity . fa An account of the state of the Body and Mind in old age ; with Observations on its Diseases , rind their Remedies ,
Most of the facts which I shall deliver upon this subject are the re , suit of observations made during the last five ' years , upon persons of both sexes , who had passed the Sqth year of their lives . J intended to