Works, Volume 93Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 15
... thought to sell English cloth in its northern regions by discovering the North - East Passage round the Siberian coast and then passing on to China and Japan . Others desired to follow the Portuguese round the Cape of Good Hope to India ...
... thought to sell English cloth in its northern regions by discovering the North - East Passage round the Siberian coast and then passing on to China and Japan . Others desired to follow the Portuguese round the Cape of Good Hope to India ...
Page 70
... thought worthy of being translated into English and printed ; the occasion of which was that ... his book being grown very scarce , Sir Hans Sloane , Captain Hatton , and some other considerable virtuosos procured the book from the ...
... thought worthy of being translated into English and printed ; the occasion of which was that ... his book being grown very scarce , Sir Hans Sloane , Captain Hatton , and some other considerable virtuosos procured the book from the ...
Page 111
... thoughts differently expressed , than with the same books differently decorated . Such compilations could but faintly reflect the rapid develop- ment of geographical knowledge and thought , and we need make only a cursory survey of them ...
... thoughts differently expressed , than with the same books differently decorated . Such compilations could but faintly reflect the rapid develop- ment of geographical knowledge and thought , and we need make only a cursory survey of them ...
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