Excerpt from The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R. N. Knt., To the Arctic Regions: For the Discovery of a North West Passage; Performed in the Years 1829-30-31-32 and 33 Umilhis period; the fragile barks of the Europeans, had been principly confined to the coasting trade, but the daring genius of Colmbus saw at a distance far beyond the ocean's visible vergefbe mountains of a distant land, although the ignorance and Sperstition of the age in which he lived, threw the most dighnening obstacles in his way; the priests laughed at his Mions and his arguments; the soidisant Philosophers ridi capbis analogies founded on the Laws of Nature, and he was W threatened with a prison, for presuming to entertain the Mical doctrine, that beypnd the furthest ken of Sea there Jit exist a people, who had never heard of the name of Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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