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Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893

Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893, Page 12

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5 however. It is nation saluting nation. It is 1893 saluting 1493. It is the grandest production of marine architecture that the world has ever seen saluting the embryo from which it has developed. Such then was the meeting of the "City of New York" and the caravels of Columbus in the harbor of New York on the morning of May 1st 1893. x x x x x x x x To the thoughtful observer this question most naturally presents itself, -- What has been the cause of this remarkable development, why this great difference between the little caravel of 1493, scarcely an hundred feet long, and the great Atlantic "grey-hound" more than six times it's length? Why a journey across the sea of only five days now and for centuries ago of as many months? The answer to one and all
 
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