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Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 125

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dian, irrespective of latitude.*Fifty years later (1585), Juan Jayme madea voyage with Gali from the Philippine Islandsto Acapulco to test a declinatorum of hisown invention.* But this was a hundred years(169S-1702) before Halleys Expedition wassent, — the first which any government fittedout to… … THE D.-iCKSTAFF. 1 Cosmos, Eng. tr., ii. 65S. Humboldt alsopoints out how Columbus on his second voyagehad attempted to fix his longitude by the decli-nation of the needle (Ibid , ii. 657; v. 54). Cf.a paper on Columbus and Cabot in the AauticalMagtiziiie, July, 1S76. It is a fact that good luck or…

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