Christopher Columbus and his monument Columbia : $b being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose
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Christopher Columbus and his monument Columbia : $b being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose
[Footnote 33: For the above particulars and inscription the compiler
desires to acknowledge his obligation to the Hon. Thomas Adamson, U. S.
Consul General at Panama, and Mr. George W. Clamman, the able clerk of
the U. S. Consulate in the city of Colon.]
[Footnote 34: Copernicus has also been so styled.]
[Footnote 35: Senor Emilio Castelar, the celebrated Spanish author and
statesman, in his most able series of articles on Columbus in the
_Century Magazine_, derides the fact of an actual mutiny as a convenient
fable which authors and dramatists have clothed with much choice
diction.]
[Footnote 36: Galileo, the great Italian natural philosopher, is here
referred to by the author.]
[Footnote 37: By permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Publishers.]
[Footnote 38: By permission of Messrs. Ginn & Co., Publishers.]
[Footnote 39: The Rock of Gibraltar is referred to.]
[Footnote 40: The location of the church at Old Isabella has been
exactly determined, and a noble monument (fully described in these
pages) has been erected there under the auspices of the _Sacred Heart
Review_ of Boston.]
[Footnote 41: Since changed to a life-size statue of Columbus.]
[Footnote 42: A replica is erected in Boston.]
[Footnote 43: Copyright, 1892, by permission of the publishers.]
[Footnote 44: Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.]
[Footnote 45: Copyright, and by permission of Chas. Scribner's Sons,
Publishers, New York.]
[Footnote 46: Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.]
[Footnote 47: Docuit quae maximus Atlas. Hic canit errantem Lernam,
Solisque labores. _Virgil, AEneid_, I, 741.]
[Footnote 48: Navarrete thought that Turk Island was the island, the
most southern of the Bahama group, because he erroneously assumed that
Columbus always shaped a westerly course in sailing from island to
island; and Turk Island, being farthest east, would give most room for
such a course. This island has large lagoons, and is surrounded by a
reef. So far it resembles Guanahani. But the second island, according to
Navarrete, is Caicos, bearing W. N. W., while the second island of
Columbus bore S. W. from the first. The third island of Columbus was in
sight from the second. Inagua Chica (Little Inagua), Navarrete's third
island, is not in sight from Caicos. The third island of Columbus was 60
miles long. Inagua Chica is only 12 miles long. The fourth island of
Columbus bore east from the third. Inagua Grande (Great Inagua),
Navarrete's fourth island, bears southwest from Inagua Chica.
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