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Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893

Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893, Page 18

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11 of navigation and commerce. we can plainly see with but a cursory investigation that all this progress in mining, manufacturing, milling, agriculture, electricity, in marine engineering and in marine architecture has been due to invention and invention alone. But we are indebted still more to this goddess Invention, we are indebted to her for the discovery of this continent of ours. Before the year 1492 the navigators of Europe had been content to sail along the Western coast and those of the Mediterranean where by far the larger part of the commerce was carried on. The Portugese, the most adventurous, sea-faring people of the time determined to find a water route to India. So
 
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