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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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edthe greatest variation of the needle known at that time,—fifty-six degrees to the west. The charts of Baffin are lost; butseveral of his journals are extant, and contain numerous astro-nomical and hydrographic observations, which have since beenfully verified by the superior instruments of modern science. 320 MAN UPON THE SEA. Baffin saw the opening to the west which Ross, two centurieslater, was to call Lancaster Sound, and through which Parry-was to penetrate to Melville Island and to the Polar Sea. Hewas convinced that a northwest passage existed, though henever made a second voyage in search of it. For one hundredand sixty years, now, the Arctic waters of the American con-tinent were left undisturbed by adventurers from Europe. Theiricy coasts remained unvisited till the middle of the eighteenthcentury, when the energies of English navigators were rousedinto activity by the reward offered by Parliament,—twentythousand pounds to him who should sail to China by the north-west.
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^IMAGE: Embarkation of the Pilgrims at Delfthaven page 320 ectton V, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF CAPE HORN TO THE APPLICATION OF STEAM TO NAVIGATION ; 1616—1807. CHAPTER XXXV. A FAMOUS VESSEL THE MAYFLOWER—HER APPEARANCE—THE SPEEDWELL DEPARTURE OF THE TWO SHIPS—ALLEGED UNSEAWORTHINESS OF THE SPEEDWELL—THE MAYFLOWER SAILS ALONE—THE EQUINOCTIAL—CONSULTATIONS—A REMEDY APPLIED FIRST VIEW OF THE LAND—SUBSEQUENT HISTORY AND FATE OF THE MAYFLOWER. We have now to narrate the incidents of a voyage without precedent, in one point of view, in maritime annals, and to chronicle the adventures of a ship which may be safely said to have achieved a fame beyond that of any other that ever ploughed the ocean. When we mention the name of the May-flower, in which the Pilgrim Fathers proceeded from Southampton Water to Plymouth Rock, we are sure that the distinction which we claim for this feeble vessel will be contested by none,—not even by those who would gladly accord the supremacy of the seas to the Nina of Columbus or the Vittoria of Magellan. The

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