Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION. CHAPTER I. Infancy of Commerce and Navigation in the Mediterranean--Mercantile marine--Ships of war--Pillars of Hercules, the Ultima Thule of early navigation--The Phenicians the most prominent navigators--They are the first who sail along the African coast--Discovery of the Canary Islands--Christianity confined to the shores of the Mediterranean--Decline of the Greek and rise of the Roman Empire--The Romans invade Gaul and Britain--They teach the Britons to build roads and instruct them in the art of cultivating the ground--St. Augustine with forty monks lands in England in 597--Introduces Christianity--Discovery of the polarity of the magnet--The art of printing invented in 1441--Columbus sails from Palos in 1492--Vasco de Gama doubles the Cape of Good Hope in 1497--Brazil coast discovered in 1497--Second expedition from Portugal to Brazil--First Christian cross erected in Brazil on the 10th of May 1500--Columbus discovers and colonizes San Domingo, Cuba, and sundry places in the Spanish Main--John Cabot discovers Labrador and Newfoundland in 1497--Jacques Cartier enters the St. Lawrence in 1534 and takes possession of that region in the name of the King of France--Canadas settled in 1535--An English colony established at Jamestown in 1607--Mayflower reaches Plymouth in 1620--In 1625 the Duteh plant a colony at the mouth of the Hudson River. Before the birth of the Savior, and for many centuries subsequent to that event, navigation was confined to the Mediterranean and the small seas connected with it. The ships spoken of in the Scriptures and in Ancient History were mostly small vessels employed in carrying breadstuff's, provisions, and other materials to and from the various nations on both sides of the...
