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... North America offered to the eye of the adventurer . The spices , the precious stones , and all the clegant manufactures of the east , were justly considered as more certain and abundant sources of wealth than almost any other part of ...
... North America offered to the eye of the adventurer . The spices , the precious stones , and all the clegant manufactures of the east , were justly considered as more certain and abundant sources of wealth than almost any other part of ...
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... East Indies ; and although the Cabots were undoubtedly navigators of enlarged views and of uncommon skill ; yet ... north ; of consequence , near that part of North Carolina on which Wilming- ton now stands . From that point of the coast ...
... East Indies ; and although the Cabots were undoubtedly navigators of enlarged views and of uncommon skill ; yet ... north ; of consequence , near that part of North Carolina on which Wilming- ton now stands . From that point of the coast ...
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... east and the north , it stretcheth twelve leagues , where it wareth broader and broader , and maketh a gulfe about twenty leagues in compasse , wherein are five small islands , very fruitful and pleasant , full of hie and broad trees ...
... east and the north , it stretcheth twelve leagues , where it wareth broader and broader , and maketh a gulfe about twenty leagues in compasse , wherein are five small islands , very fruitful and pleasant , full of hie and broad trees ...
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... east and north - east , until he reached the 56th degree of north latitude , or about the coast of Labrador . Thence he sailed towards France , where he arrived in the month of July , on the eighth day of which month , at the port of ...
... east and north - east , until he reached the 56th degree of north latitude , or about the coast of Labrador . Thence he sailed towards France , where he arrived in the month of July , on the eighth day of which month , at the port of ...
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... north , the same asso- ciation in whose service he had made the first voyage , resolved to make another attempt , the object of which was to find a passage by the north - east . Accord- ingly , the next year they fitted out another ship ...
... north , the same asso- ciation in whose service he had made the first voyage , resolved to make another attempt , the object of which was to find a passage by the north - east . Accord- ingly , the next year they fitted out another ship ...
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