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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 622 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=35mm, Gew.=898gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 622 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=35mm, Gew.=898gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HISTORY OF CANADA. CHAPTER I. MORE than three centuries and a half have elapsed since the discovery of America constituted a new epoch in the annals of civilisation. The vague ideas of unknown climes indulged in by Strabo, the dim prophecies of Seneca, t the romantic theories of Plato, the philosophic speculations of the middle ages, had all pointed to an actual reality, however obscurely; and the return ofColumbus to Spain on the 4th of January 1493, after an absence of seven months, dispelled every doubt regarding the existence of hitherto unknown regions, amid the waters of the Western Atlantic. " It is very possible that in the same temperate zone, and almost in the same latitude as Athens, there are inhabited worlds distinct from that in which we dwell."?Strabo, lib. L, p. 65. f" " Seneca held that a vast country was originally situated in the Atlantic Ocean, and rent asunder by a violent earthquake. The portion which still remained unsubmerged by the ocean, would one day be discovered."?Malle Brun. " Buffon quoting Plato's Timxus, relative to the destruction of Atalantis, says, it is not devoid of probability. The land swallowed up by the waters were perhaps those which united Ireland to the Azores, and the Azores to the continent of America; for in Ireland there are the same fossils, the same shells, and the same sea-bodies as appear in America: and some of which are found in no other part of Europe."?Buffon's Natural History, vol. i., p. 36- I " In the middle ages the prevalent opinion was, that the sea covered but one- seventh of the globe, an opinion which Cardinal d'Ally founded on the book ot Kzra. Columbus, who always derived much of his cosmological knowledge from the cardinal's work, was much interested in supporting this opinion of the ...<