ISBN: 123590170X

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235901706], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235901706], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ... of Spain successfully blinded for a time the scholastic apathy of the rest of Europe, and persuaded political ignorance that it was Columbus who first made the discovery of America. Thus, every probability supports the opinion, that men from Europe or Western Africa had reached the New World long before the assumed discovery of Columbus; yet it does not follow, that any who were carried to the west by the trade winds ever returned. The Scandinavians, however, reached the coast at a high latitude, where the north-western winds prevail in autumn, and the marine current sets towards Europe. Hence they returned to Iceland or to Norway with little uncertainty. Disregarding for a moment the probabilities already mentioned of the subsidence of a great extent of land in the Pacific Ocean, it is evident, that from the east of Asia and the Polynesian Islands, the principal immigrations of mankind have taken place. Of these the Pitcairn and Easter Islands, nearest to the coast of South America, are remarkable for the colossal idols of stone, which have been observed in both, though the first was for a time believed never to have been inhabited before the arrival of the mutineers of the Bounty, and the other is now in the possession of a race who do not claim the fabrication of them. It may be observed, in much earlier in Mexico, but then the chronology now admitted must be wrong. See Don Antonio del Rio. Teatro critico Americano, by F. Cabrera. confirmation of the removal of Polynesians by war, by design, or by stress of weather, to the eastward, that to the 20th degree of south latitude, and to more than 200 leagues at sea, a south-west and south cold wind blows, with a current coming from the pole, and setting towards the south-west coast, drives floating bodies on..., 5035, World, 15812171, Civilization & Culture, 3825131, Expeditions & Discoveries, 4992, Jewish, 11764653011, Maritime History & Piracy, 6343224011, Religious, 16244141, Slavery & Emancipation, 15812211, Women in History, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

2012, ISBN: 123590170X

[EAN: 9781235901706], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missi… More...

[EAN: 9781235901706], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: . of Spain successfully blinded for a time the scholastic apathy of the rest of Europe, and persuaded political ignorance that it was Columbus who first made the discovery of America. Thus, every probability supports the opinion, that men from Europe or Western Africa had reached the New World long before the assumed discovery of Columbus; yet it does not follow, that any who were carried to the west by the trade winds ever returned. The Scandinavians, however, reached the coast at a high latitude, where the north-western winds prevail in autumn, and the marine current sets towards Europe. Hence they returned to Iceland or to Norway with little uncertainty. Disregarding for a moment the probabilities already mentioned of the subsidence of a great extent of land in the Pacific Ocean, it is evident, that from the east of Asia and the Polynesian Islands, the principal immigrations of mankind have taken place. Of these the Pitcairn and Easter Islands, nearest to the coast of South America, are remarkable for the colossal idols of stone, which have been observed in both, though the first was for a time believed never to have been inhabited before the arrival of the mutineers of the Bounty, and the other is now in the possession of a race who do not claim the fabrication of them. It may be observed, in much earlier in Mexico, but then the chronology now admitted must be wrong. See Don Antonio del Rio. Teatro critico Americano, by F. Cabrera. confirmation of the removal of Polynesians by war, by design, or by stress of weather, to the eastward, that to the 20th degree of south latitude, and to more than 200 leagues at sea, a south-west and south cold wind blows, with a current coming from the pole, and setting towards the south-west coast, drives floating bodies on.<

2012, ISBN: 123590170X

[EAN: 9781235901706], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missin… More...

[EAN: 9781235901706], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: . of Spain successfully blinded for a time the scholastic apathy of the rest of Europe, and persuaded political ignorance that it was Columbus who first made the discovery of America. Thus, every probability supports the opinion, that men from Europe or Western Africa had reached the New World long before the assumed discovery of Columbus; yet it does not follow, that any who were carried to the west by the trade winds ever returned. The Scandinavians, however, reached the coast at a high latitude, where the north-western winds prevail in autumn, and the marine current sets towards Europe. Hence they returned to Iceland or to Norway with little uncertainty. Disregarding for a moment the probabilities already mentioned of the subsidence of a great extent of land in the Pacific Ocean, it is evident, that from the east of Asia and the Polynesian Islands, the principal immigrations of mankind have taken place. Of these the Pitcairn and Easter Islands, nearest to the coast of South America, are remarkable for the colossal idols of stone, which have been observed in both, though the first was for a time believed never to have been inhabited before the arrival of the mutineers of the Bounty, and the other is now in the possession of a race who do not claim the fabrication of them. It may be observed, in much earlier in Mexico, but then the chronology now admitted must be wrong. See Don Antonio del Rio. Teatro critico Americano, by F. Cabrera. confirmation of the removal of Polynesians by war, by design, or by stress of weather, to the eastward, that to the 20th degree of south latitude, and to more than 200 leagues at sea, a south-west and south cold wind blows, with a current coming from the pole, and setting towards the south-west coast, drives floating bodies on.<

ISBN: 123590170X

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