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An Account Of Druidism.
god . We have also p laces in Danmonium which retain the names of Mars and of Mercury , as Tremer , the town of 'Mars , ^ nd Gun Mar ' r zwdKclli Mar ' r , the Downs and the Grove of Mercury . It was in the Phenician age , the corrupted age of Druidism , _ that temples were erected to Belisama , or the queen of heaven , both in the metropolis of the island * and in the chief city of Danmonium f ; that a temple ivas
, consecrated to Qnca at Bath J , and that sacred buildings were probabl y frequented at the Start-point by the votaries of Astarte , and at the promontory of Hertland , by the worshippers of Hercules . [ To be concluded in our next . ]
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION .
IN SEVERAL ESSAYS . Goniinuedfrom Page 29 6 .
ESSAY VIII . T ? 0 avoid breaking the thread of our narrative , we lave followed the Portuguese navigators in their extensive navigations beyond the Cape of Good Hope , and shall now turn back to the voyages of the Spaniardswhose bold expeditions to the westward have discovered to
, us a new world . Christopher Columbus , a Genoese , well skilled in navigation and other parts of the mathematics , convinced that so great a part of the ivorld as was yet unknown could not all be sea , and firmly persuaded that , as the earth was round , a shorter way mig ht be discovered to India than that which the Portuguese were in pursuit of , round the
coast of Africa ; he resolved to apply himself wholly to the discovery of those rich countries , which he positively concluded must extend from what was known of the East-Indies still to the eastward one way , and to be the easier met with by sailing round to the westward . Having been long fully possessed with this notion , and provided to answer a ] l objections that mi ght be started against it , he thought the undertaking too great for any less than a sovereign prince or state , and , therefore , not to be unjust to his country , he first proposed it to the state of Genoa , where it was rather ridiculed than any way encouraged .
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An Account Of Druidism.
god . We have also p laces in Danmonium which retain the names of Mars and of Mercury , as Tremer , the town of 'Mars , ^ nd Gun Mar ' r zwdKclli Mar ' r , the Downs and the Grove of Mercury . It was in the Phenician age , the corrupted age of Druidism , _ that temples were erected to Belisama , or the queen of heaven , both in the metropolis of the island * and in the chief city of Danmonium f ; that a temple ivas
, consecrated to Qnca at Bath J , and that sacred buildings were probabl y frequented at the Start-point by the votaries of Astarte , and at the promontory of Hertland , by the worshippers of Hercules . [ To be concluded in our next . ]
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION .
IN SEVERAL ESSAYS . Goniinuedfrom Page 29 6 .
ESSAY VIII . T ? 0 avoid breaking the thread of our narrative , we lave followed the Portuguese navigators in their extensive navigations beyond the Cape of Good Hope , and shall now turn back to the voyages of the Spaniardswhose bold expeditions to the westward have discovered to
, us a new world . Christopher Columbus , a Genoese , well skilled in navigation and other parts of the mathematics , convinced that so great a part of the ivorld as was yet unknown could not all be sea , and firmly persuaded that , as the earth was round , a shorter way mig ht be discovered to India than that which the Portuguese were in pursuit of , round the
coast of Africa ; he resolved to apply himself wholly to the discovery of those rich countries , which he positively concluded must extend from what was known of the East-Indies still to the eastward one way , and to be the easier met with by sailing round to the westward . Having been long fully possessed with this notion , and provided to answer a ] l objections that mi ght be started against it , he thought the undertaking too great for any less than a sovereign prince or state , and , therefore , not to be unjust to his country , he first proposed it to the state of Genoa , where it was rather ridiculed than any way encouraged .