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referred to a later date than either ; for some of the 

 old inhabitants, it seems, are impressed with the 

 idea that Lord Baltimore had once intended to 

 erect saw-mills in the neighbourhood of Port de 

 Grasse, vestiges of which are said still to remain. 

 It is an interesting subject, of which some more 

 certain information it is to be hoped will speedily 

 be procured. 



CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. 1467. 



The extraordinary discoveries of the Portugueze, 

 but that of all others which opened them a route 

 to India round the Cape of Good Hope, aroused the 

 cupidity of some of, and the curiosity of all, the 

 nations of Europe, and excited that spirit of enter- 

 prize in England, which, though it might sometimes 

 languish, was never wholly extinguished; and 

 which, indeed, is not likely ever to be extinguished 

 so long as any part, hovv^ever obscure or remote, of 

 this globe we inhabit remains to be discovered. The 

 Italians were the most skilful navigators of those 

 days; and among the foreigners who had engaged 

 in the Portugueze service was a Genoese by birth, 

 named Christoval Colon or Christopher 

 Columbus, who, at the early age of fourteen, had 

 betaken himself to a seafaring life, and had made 

 considerable progress in geometry, cosmography 

 and astronom}^ His first voyage, after leaving 

 the Mediterranean, appears to have been into the 



