Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Account of the British Dominions Beyond the Atlantic: Containing Chiefly What Is Most Interesting and Least Known With Respect to Those Parts, Particularly the Important Question About the North West Passage Is Satisfactorily Discussed, With a Large Map in Which the Said Supposed Passage
But as the Englifh do now and then talk of reviving their claim to New Albion; on the North of California, difcovered by their coun tryman, Sir Francis Drake, and by the natives fubje�ted at that time to the Englilh feeptre; and as our people feem even in carucu: with te f ce't to this claim', if ever they fucceed in the difcovery of a north-weft pafl'agej and as fome Indian tribes towards the fouthern mentioned boundaries; for infiance, the Moskitos, and samballaws, have always either as fubje�ts or inferior allies acknowledged their dependence on the crown of England; I {hall probably be thought not much out in extending their em pire as far as is now mentioned. By my afllgning to the Englifh dominions thofe boundar'es, I would not however be thou ht to exc ude the French, the Dutch, and. The ame Danes from the property of fome ifiands which each of them poll'ers in the Well Indies: Thore (hall be taken norice of in their proper places. I have now only defigned a general sketch of what the Englifh hold or claim in there parts, without as yet fpecifying the precil'e determinations between them and their neighbours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
