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Excerpt from A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Vol. 17: Many of Which Are Now First Translated Into English; Digested on a New Plan
The opulence of nature was now to be difclofed and Greece was aflonifhed at the miracles of India. The Romans not only inherited the Grecian knowledge, but, ex tending their arms to the North and Weft, accumulated difcoveries upon regions dimly defcried by the Greeks, through the obfcurity in which the Phenicians enveloped their commercial advantages. Spain was unveiled by the Punic wars; and the eagles of the firft Gefar were feen in the extremities of Gaul, and in the fouthern parts of Britain. The weitern regions of Germany afforded farther fcenes of enterprife, and the fleets of Rome vifited the Baltic.
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