Early Attempts To Reach The Pole
At th,s clone of t!i.3 milddle ages, 5i,.ii the dafieiency; &i knowjede of th,Li earth was graat, avarice nmd öie qjiestt Soi.' tk3 good'3 oí th.e south tied men int. tlis north.am Lee ; they i,t to reaoh Iadïa by the sliortt st j)O;sib'j2 routes, wlieretliey would not nueet rL'raii anti amemj.ee. Taiö .; t'he oibject of Magieulaa's cii'caniautvigatiom. Ttie Ceterum Censeo of Janees Lancaster asseirted tlliat the ï;iv t IiuUa ivas ïiortii, arouiid Ajnerloa. Indift. wias th,e oibject of the piofoff navig-ators Caibot ta the fifteaatih., Frobiteher and; Darts ia vhe r-ixteeoitlii. and Hudao'a and BaHüa ia t'ke ecveinteenth centuries, toi name OTfly a few ok the most, famoss.. It is astiui.üyiLiug what these daring BritiB'k and Dutch, saüoi:-s risked, 8UÍtered, and giained. They did n.ofb, iindeed, reach, India, luit we ai! knotw of Hudsiom Bay, Davis Steaiit, and Ijaneasiber Sond. Aa we C(WO to tlia mea of the stone agx;, whoi iived beüore all lUstory, ome &; tihe mast important possessjons ol iiiian, t)h great patha they inarked ■out npo'u the oafCüi acroas etrea.ms, OjMer mouatains, and flirougÍL Witíderuess and pÜain, whiich, are uttül the POutee of to-day's bj-g)h.ways, bo these arctic naviglitors mapped oui tfce ocyurses of t heir uuccessors. The t-hips of üie whajei's and ueal hunters it).Qowed he.ni, discaverilag one tay, isUand, and cüiannel atlter anojther, naming theni and markiiig tbem o,n nuaps.- Georg Geriand, in Appletom'8 PkapuJar Bcience MoiithJy lor September.
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