The voyage of Verrazzano : $b a chapter in the early history of maritime discovery in AmericaMurphy, Henry Cruse
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The voyage of Verrazzano : $b a chapter in the early history of maritime discovery in America
Murphy, Henry Cruse
America -- Discovery and exploration -- French; Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 1485-1528
In questa nostra navigatione
fatta per ordine du V. S. M.,
oltre i gradi 92 che dal detto
meridiano verso lo occidente della
prima terra trovamo gradi 34
navigando leghe 300 infra oriente
e settentrione leghe 400, quasi allo
oriente continuo el lito della terra
siamo pervenuti per infino a gradi
50, lasciando la terra che piu
tempe fa trovorno li Lusitani,
quali seguirno piu al septentrione,
pervenendo sino al circulo
artico e'l fine lasciendo incognito.
Translation Narrative.
After sailing between east and
north the distance of one hundred
and fifty leagues more and finding
our provisions and naval
stores nearly exhausted, we took
in wood and water, and determined
to return to France having
discovered VII that is 700
leagues of unknown lands.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Cosmography.
In the voyage which we made
by order of your Majesty, in
addition to the 92 degrees we ran
towards the west from our point
of departure, before we reached
land in the latitude of 34, we
have to count 300 leagues which
we ran northeastwardly, and 400
nearly east along the coast before
WE REACHED THE 50TH PARALLEL OF
NORTH LATITUDE, THE POINT WHERE WE
TURNED OUR COURSE FROM THE SHORE
TOWARDS HOME. BEYOND THIS POINT
THE PORTUGUESE HAD ALREADY SAILED
AS FAR NORTH AS THE ARCTIC CIRCLE,
WITHOUT COMING TO THE TERMINATION
OF THE LAND.
VERSION OF RAMUSIO,
Narrative.
Navigando fra levante &
tramontana per spatio di leghe
150, PERVENIMO PROPINQUI ALLA
TERRA EGE PER IL PASSATO
TREVORONO I BRETTONI, QUALE
STA IN GRADI 50 & havendo
horamai consumati tutti li
nostri armeggi & vettovaglie,
havendo scoperto leghe 700,
& piu di nuova terra, fortnitoci
di acque & legue, deliberammo
tornare in Francia.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Cosmography omitted.
Translation Narrative.
Sayling northeast for the space
of 150 leagues WE APPROACHED TO
THE LANDE THAT IN TIMES PAST WAS
DISCOVERED BY THE BRITONS, WHICH IS
IN FIFTIE DEGREES. Having now
spent all our provision and
victuals and having discovered
about 700 leagues and more of
newe countries, and being
furnished with water and wood we
concluded to returne into Fraunce.
(Hakluyt, Divers voyages).
(Cogswell, Coll. of N. Y. Hist.
Society, Second series, I.)
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