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ed down on every side, the calm we experienced was awful 

 and dead, like the stillnefs of nature around us. 



" I was roused from this despondency by a cry from 

 Ellaroe •, her eyes sparkled with joy j (he made me ob- 

 serve the sails and the cordage agitated by the wind •, wc 

 felt the motion of the waves 5 a frefh breeze sprung up, 

 that carried the two vefsels in three days to Porto Bello. 

 To be continued. 



LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 



A curious discovery. 



J HEREhasbeen lately discovered as it is said in the library 

 of St Mark at Venice, acoUection of hydrographical charts, 

 designed in the year 1436, accompanied with a manuscript 

 description of the voyages of Marin Sanudo, a celebrated 

 Venetian navigator, who lived at the end of the thir- 

 ^;eenth, and beginning of the fourteenth century, which, 

 prove, it is said, in the most unequivocal manner, not only 

 that the seas of Africa and India were known by the Ve- 

 netians, long before the discoveiies of th* Portuguese,, 

 but also that the Antilles, Hudson's bay, and Newfound- 

 land, had been discovered and frequented by their navi- 

 gators, more than a century before the age of Christopher 

 Columbus. 



This information was communicated to the public in a 

 memoir concerning Italy, read at a general meeting of the 

 Literary Society of Valence in Dauphigne, in France, ou 

 the 26th of August last, by a M. Naillac. No account 

 has yet reached us of the proofs by which he has establi- 

 flied the authenticity of these manuscripts. In this age 

 of literary forgeries, it will be neccfsary to bring very un- 

 equivocal evidence of the authenticity of these pioduc-*, 



