Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidpopularhistoryof00brya A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders and buildings of red houses. Capitol buildings were made in this period. Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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. F. Nichols,City Librarian, Bristol, Enj^land, p. 46. 3 Rev. Dr. Wood in vol. i., Second Series, Maine Hist. Soc. Coll.^ Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. i.. Second Series. 5 For detailed description and discussion see J. G. Kohl; also letter of M. dAvezac toRev. Dr. Woods. Maine Hist. Coll., vol. i., Second Series. 132 COLUMBUS, VESPUCCI, AND THE CABOTS. (Chap. VL some countries it is tolerably correct, in others it is full of errors andremarkable for inexplicable omissions; but it assumes, in one of its in-scriptions, to have this authority : Sebastian Cabot, Cap-Testimony r ^ • 1 ~\ T of the Map. t^^ij^ a^jid Pilot-major of his Sacred Imperial Majesty the Emperor, Don Carlos, the fifth of his name, and king, our lord, madethis figure extended in plane, in the year of the birth of our SaviorJesus Christ, MDXLIIII. (1544.) With reference to Newfoundlandthere is this descriptive legend in Latin and Italian: This land wasdiscovered by John Cabot, a Venetian, and Sebastian Cabot his son,
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Sebastian Cabots Map, 1544. in the year of the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ, M.CCCC.XCIIII(1494), the twenty-fourth day of June (at 5 oclock) in the morning;to which land has been given the name of The Land First Seen (ter-ram primum visam) ; and to a great island, which is very near thesaid land, the name of St. John has been given, on account of itshaving been discovered the same day. Date of the ^^ ^^^^^ legend be correct, it overthrows all previous theo-dhplTed ^^^^ ^^^^ P^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ previous assertions. If the first voy-age of the Cabots was made in 1494, the mistake as tothe age of Sebastian has been general, for it is not at all likely that 1497.) DATE OF THE CABOT VOYAGE. 133 any share in the responsibility in an expedition so hazardous anduncertain would have been attributed to a lad of seventeen, and itconflicts with all we know of his character to suppose that he wouldsnatch at honors that were not rightfully his. The question thusopened anew has given rise to much l

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