...when they landed on the Isle of Trance, at that time uniuhabited, immediately after the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. It was of a large size, and singular form; its •wings short, like those of an ostrich, and wholly...

...its political retrogression. The mighty impulse given to commerce by the discovery of America and of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, coupled with the certainty imparted to the science of navigation by the use of the compass, caused...

...when they landed on the Isle of France, at that time uninhabited, immediately after the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. It was of a large size, and singular form ; its wings short, like those of an ostrich, and wholly incapable...

...system of the Deluge. * Venice was the most flourishing city in Europe, with regard to trade, before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered. 3 Those who fled to some marshes in the Adriatic gulf, from the desolation...

...retro- Tudor gression. The mighty impulse given to Commerce by the eno< ' discovery of America and of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, coupled with the certainty imparted to the science of navigation by the use of the compass, caused...

...island—Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great, from whom it derives its name ; and before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope was discovered, it was a place of prodigious trade—The old city was entirely ruined, and the present...

...when they landed on the Isle of France, at that time uninhabited, immediately after the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. It was of a large size, and singular form; its wings short, like those of an ostrich, and wholly incapable...

...political retrogression. period. The mighty impulse given to commerce by the discovery of America and of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, coupled with the certainty imparted to the science of navigation by the use of the compass, caused...

...Bourbon. The picture was taken from a living specimen, brought into Holland, soon after the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, by the Portuguese. It was once the property of Sir Hans Sloane, and afterwards of the celebrated ornithologist...

...Smith proclaimed it in the birth year of the American Republic: "The discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest events recorded in the history of mankind." 2 Today, as this vision shoulders...