Historical and Geographical Notes on the Earliest Discoveries in America, 1453-1530 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A new summing up of North American discovery has ap peared in a magnum opus published in April of this year by the Maine Historical Society, nominally the History of the Dis covery of Maine, but really the history of the discovery of the whole eastern coast of North America. This learned work by John Gr. Kohl, LL.D. Is presumed to be the culmination of all that is known and recorded on this vast subject from Adam of Bremen to Kohl of Bremen, and may therefore be held as the present state of the history of North American geography and discovery.

There is appended to the Maine volume a remarkable pa per on the four voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot, by M. D'avezac of Paris, in Which the distinguished French geog rapher, on several important points, expresses views precisely opposite to those of Dr. Kohl. Both of course cannot be right, but this affords an apt illustration of the present confused con dition of our geography. However, Whether in all respects the Maine volume will stand the test of criticism or not, the Histor ical Society of Maine is deserving of high commendation for having so boldly and S0 honestly put forth this expensive for eign production, amply illustrated as it is with facsimiles (ut vulgo) of no less than twenty-three of the earliest maps. The Whole question is now brought down to date and set up between two boards for public view and judgment. No geographer has as yet done the work better, and the only wonder is that Dr.

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