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Voyages in Search of the North West Passage
Voyages in Search of the North West Passage Author:Richard Hakluyt If you seek the advice herein of such as make profession in cosmography, Ptolemy, the father of geography, and his eldest children, will answer by their maps with a negative, concluding most of the sea within the land, and making an end of the world northward, near the 63rd degree. The same opinion, when learning chiefly flourished, was received... more » in the Romans' time, as by their poets' writings it may appear.« less