This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...achieved, and the name of John Cabot has been rescued from the obscurity in which for four centuries it had been enveloped; but something is still duo to the irritated historical susceptibilities of the public, which will refuse to be satisfied by the '; unknown," and, still less, by the "unknowable." It will appear, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...achieved, and the name of John Cabot has been rescued from the obscurity in which for four centuries it had been enveloped; but something is still duo to the irritated historical susceptibilities of the public, which will refuse to be satisfied by the '; unknown," and, still less, by the "unknowable." It will appear, upon a careful perusal of the preceding pages, that there is no physical or goographical reason a priori why Cape Breton may not have been Cabot's landfall, and that the voyage was intended to be upon a westerly course. It will also appear that all the conditions existing upon the North Atlantic tend to make a westerly course swerve to the south, and that there is, therefore, a strong preponderance of probability in favour of a landfall at Cape Breton. To that same conclusion the positive evidence of the strictly contemporary documents also points, and that same landfall was set forth eighty years before any other was specifically named. It has been shown that John Cabot gave to Pedro de Ayala, Spanish ambassador in London, a map of his discoveries on his first voyage, and that map was sent to Ferdinand of Spain late in the year 1498, before the second expedition returned. The same king employed Juan de La Cosa to make a mappemoude in the year 1500, and that cartographer compiled it out of the materials then accessible. His mappe-monde contains the English discoveries on the northeast American coast, to wit, the discoveries Of the Cabots, for there were none others made at the time, and the conclusion is, therefore, irresistible that La Cosa's map contains the results of John Cabot's first voyage. It has been, moreover, made clear, and admitted by very high authority, that Cavo de Ynglaterra on that map is Cape Race, and it there...
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