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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
not subdue the two greatest , as most , populous and best defended . These were afterwards subdued by king Ferdinand , as may be seen in Mariana , lib . \ 6 . p . 29 . These Avere small beginnings ,-and out of regular course ; next folloAV the gradual discoveries made by the Portuguese , which may be said to have been the groundwork of all the ensuing navigations , which happened in this manner . King John , of Portugal , enjoying peace at home after his wars with Castile , was
persuaded by his sons to undertake the conquest of Ceuta On the Afri-. can shore . Prince Henry , his fifth son , accompanied him-in his expedition , and at his return home brought With him-a ' strong inclination to discover neAv seas and lands , and the more On account of the information he had received from several Moors concerning the coasts of Africa to the southward , which Avere as yet unknown to Europeans ,
Avho never pretended to venture beyond Cape Nao , which had therefore : this name given it , signifying , in Portuguese ,, No ; to imply there Avas iio sailing further ; arid the reason Avas , because the' Cape running fat but into the sea , caused it to break and appear dangerous ; and they , as yet not daring to'venture too far from land , were ignorant that by keeping off to sea they should avoid that danger .
In 1360 , Nicholas de Linna , or of Linn , a friar of Oxford who was an able astronomer , took a voyage Avith others into the most nor- , them islands of the Avorld ; AA'here leaving his company , he travelled alone , and made draughts of all those northern parts , which at his
return he presented to king Edward III . This Friar made five voyages into those parts : for this he quotes Gerardus Mercator , and Mr . J ohn Dee , HaklUyt , p . izz . And this , though it is not there mentioned , being sixty years after the discovery of . the compass ,-we may look upon as one of the first trials of this nature made upon the security of the magnetical direction in those northern seas . Yet after this for find other thi ; but '
many years , AVe no discovery attempted s way , . rathey all such enterprizes seemed to be Avhoily laid aside . - ¦ - 'i ^ .- . ^; ' Anno 13 80 , one Nicholo , of the noble Venetian family of Zerio , fitted out a ship , and sailed through the strei g hts of- Gibraltar to the northward , and was driven by a storm on . the coast of Friesland , Avhere ; he was shipAvrecked , and entered into the service of Zechone , a prince of Portland , small islands so called , AVhich lay south of Friesland . By
Nicho'lo ' s invitation , his brother Antonio Zeno joined him . Nicholo went on a voyage of discovery , and fell in with a part of Greenland : dying soon after , Antonio AVas also employed on discoveries of a certain place to the westward , on Avhich some fishermen had been wrecked'tAv ' enty-six years ago , called Estotiland . Many have supposedthese relations to be fabulousas the names
, , of countries mentioned therein ' are no longer to be met with . ' But Mr . Foster , in his account of voyages and discoveries in the north , supposes jt to be true ; and that the places they visited were the Orkneys , Shetland , Faro , and the Western Islands . [ To be continued . ]
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Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
not subdue the two greatest , as most , populous and best defended . These were afterwards subdued by king Ferdinand , as may be seen in Mariana , lib . \ 6 . p . 29 . These Avere small beginnings ,-and out of regular course ; next folloAV the gradual discoveries made by the Portuguese , which may be said to have been the groundwork of all the ensuing navigations , which happened in this manner . King John , of Portugal , enjoying peace at home after his wars with Castile , was
persuaded by his sons to undertake the conquest of Ceuta On the Afri-. can shore . Prince Henry , his fifth son , accompanied him-in his expedition , and at his return home brought With him-a ' strong inclination to discover neAv seas and lands , and the more On account of the information he had received from several Moors concerning the coasts of Africa to the southward , which Avere as yet unknown to Europeans ,
Avho never pretended to venture beyond Cape Nao , which had therefore : this name given it , signifying , in Portuguese ,, No ; to imply there Avas iio sailing further ; arid the reason Avas , because the' Cape running fat but into the sea , caused it to break and appear dangerous ; and they , as yet not daring to'venture too far from land , were ignorant that by keeping off to sea they should avoid that danger .
In 1360 , Nicholas de Linna , or of Linn , a friar of Oxford who was an able astronomer , took a voyage Avith others into the most nor- , them islands of the Avorld ; AA'here leaving his company , he travelled alone , and made draughts of all those northern parts , which at his
return he presented to king Edward III . This Friar made five voyages into those parts : for this he quotes Gerardus Mercator , and Mr . J ohn Dee , HaklUyt , p . izz . And this , though it is not there mentioned , being sixty years after the discovery of . the compass ,-we may look upon as one of the first trials of this nature made upon the security of the magnetical direction in those northern seas . Yet after this for find other thi ; but '
many years , AVe no discovery attempted s way , . rathey all such enterprizes seemed to be Avhoily laid aside . - ¦ - 'i ^ .- . ^; ' Anno 13 80 , one Nicholo , of the noble Venetian family of Zerio , fitted out a ship , and sailed through the strei g hts of- Gibraltar to the northward , and was driven by a storm on . the coast of Friesland , Avhere ; he was shipAvrecked , and entered into the service of Zechone , a prince of Portland , small islands so called , AVhich lay south of Friesland . By
Nicho'lo ' s invitation , his brother Antonio Zeno joined him . Nicholo went on a voyage of discovery , and fell in with a part of Greenland : dying soon after , Antonio AVas also employed on discoveries of a certain place to the westward , on Avhich some fishermen had been wrecked'tAv ' enty-six years ago , called Estotiland . Many have supposedthese relations to be fabulousas the names
, , of countries mentioned therein ' are no longer to be met with . ' But Mr . Foster , in his account of voyages and discoveries in the north , supposes jt to be true ; and that the places they visited were the Orkneys , Shetland , Faro , and the Western Islands . [ To be continued . ]
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