The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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... islands , of which Iceland was the largest . * 1 Amerigo Vespucci ( or Americus Vespucius ) : Italian pronunciation , Ah - ma- ree'go Ves - poot'chee . 2 The exact year of his birth cannot be determined ; several excellent authori- ties ...
... islands , of which Iceland was the largest . * 1 Amerigo Vespucci ( or Americus Vespucius ) : Italian pronunciation , Ah - ma- ree'go Ves - poot'chee . 2 The exact year of his birth cannot be determined ; several excellent authori- ties ...
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... islands as the Canaries and Azores , which some storm - driven sailor had originally discovered by chance . Europe , at this period , had no true ocean com- merce : its trade by sea was confined to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic ...
... islands as the Canaries and Azores , which some storm - driven sailor had originally discovered by chance . Europe , at this period , had no true ocean com- merce : its trade by sea was confined to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic ...
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... Island , or it may have been as far north as Labrador . There are no ruins or other remains to mark their temporary settlement on the American coast , although in Greenland the walls of a stone church and of other buildings show where ...
... Island , or it may have been as far north as Labrador . There are no ruins or other remains to mark their temporary settlement on the American coast , although in Greenland the walls of a stone church and of other buildings show where ...
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... island had probably little , if any , communication or trade with any part of the world except Bristol , England . The energy and enterprise for which these men of the north had once been famous had in great measure died out . They no ...
... island had probably little , if any , communication or trade with any part of the world except Bristol , England . The energy and enterprise for which these men of the north had once been famous had in great measure died out . They no ...
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... Islands , because Cipango , or Japan , the nearest Asiatic land , was supposed to lie in that latitude.2 At the Canaries he was detained several weeks repairing the rudder of one vessel , and altering the sails of a second . On ...
... Islands , because Cipango , or Japan , the nearest Asiatic land , was supposed to lie in that latitude.2 At the Canaries he was detained several weeks repairing the rudder of one vessel , and altering the sails of a second . On ...
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