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covery of Maine, but really the f the discovery of 
by John G. Kehl, uu.p. is presumed to be the culmination of 
| that is known and recorded on this vast subject from Adam 
of Bremen to Kohl of Bremen, and may therefore be held as 
the present state of the history of North American geography 
and discovery. There is appended to this volume a remarkable 
paper on the four voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot, by M. 
D’Avezac of Paris, in which the distinguished | French geog- 
rapher, on several important points, _—, views 8 seed 
Opposite to those of Dr. Kohl. _ Both of course cannot be 
<ohl could have done so much and SO aieik even from his point 
-But— 
Still the writer does not find his cravings for true and exact 
istry satisfied. Eternal may, perhaps, and probably, are the 
‘Menials of Fiction, seldom of Hiskaeg Another method of 
g treat our ancient records, he has thought, might possibly 
throw new light on the old geographical puzzles that have come 
an entire ‘ibe acta of first ae and vesting of facts, 
aided by rigid —— an ud emepousid — will enable 
leum ae - = old records sey the new light 
attempted ears of bibliographical study, to oe 
Into the pc of ane mi = ators, pilots and. cosmograph 
to see as they saw, begi years before, and coming down 
to half a a century after Co pit taking up the sequence of 
rvents as the occurred, and excluding rigi y all su Sa 
of some of his observations from this point fof view. A few ar 
i kes es ES ee, . 
Notes on the earliest discoveries in America. 301 
the Maine Historical Society, ae ee gris —— the Dis- _ 
the whole eastern coast of North fcc This learned work 
are sufficiently startling if true, but require, no- > do | 
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