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On Gothic Architecture.
Such then was Gothic Architecture . And it would be no discredit to the warmest admirers of Jones and Palladio to acknowledge it has its merit . They must at least confess it had a nobler birth , though an humbler fortune than the Greek and Roman architectuie » BURLINGTON . '
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION .
IN SEVERAL ESSAYS . [ Continued from Vol . I . Page eye . ]
ESSAY IV . — - —Voyages to Iceland , Greenland , & e . HAVING thus given a general view pf the progress of navigation , we shall proceed to our main desi gn to detail those particular voyages which remain on record , and to point out such parts of them have tended to the art of navi
as improve gation , and have rendered any accession to our geographic knowledge . ' .. ..-:-One of the earliest , of which a particular account is preserved , is is one of the northern pirates ( anno S 6 i ) , called Nadodd , ' who was thrown b y a storm on an island . never before discovered , which on account of the snow that lay on the hi gh mountains , he called ' Schnee or Snow land ; from the report he made , a Swede , by name Guarda Snafarsson
, who was settled in Denmark , undertook an expedition thither ( 864 ) , and haying sailed quite round it , named it Gardaholm ^ or Gardar's Island . Having wintered there , on his return he made such , a good report , that another Swede , named Flocke , sailed to the same Island , and wintered there on the north side of the island , where he met with a great quantity of drift ice , on which account he named it Iceland , a name it still bears . It is said these people , who first discovered it , found , on landing , some Irish books , bells , and bishops' croziers ; if so , some other adventurers must have
been there before . them . " ' : Our king Alfred was informed by one Ohthere , a man of some consequence , from Norway , that he had / proceeded due north from his own country , and sailed within three days as far north as the whale hunters go ; then proceeded eastward for four davs , and then by hel p of a northerlwindhe sailed due south for five days from
y , : this account of his voyage we may judge , that he doubled the north cape , and entered the White Sea . Ohthere being a contemporary wuh Alfred , points out nearl y the time of this voyage . The people of anti quity made use of sails but seldom , and that Only when the wind was fair ; if it was contrary , they were obliged
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On Gothic Architecture.
Such then was Gothic Architecture . And it would be no discredit to the warmest admirers of Jones and Palladio to acknowledge it has its merit . They must at least confess it had a nobler birth , though an humbler fortune than the Greek and Roman architectuie » BURLINGTON . '
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION .
IN SEVERAL ESSAYS . [ Continued from Vol . I . Page eye . ]
ESSAY IV . — - —Voyages to Iceland , Greenland , & e . HAVING thus given a general view pf the progress of navigation , we shall proceed to our main desi gn to detail those particular voyages which remain on record , and to point out such parts of them have tended to the art of navi
as improve gation , and have rendered any accession to our geographic knowledge . ' .. ..-:-One of the earliest , of which a particular account is preserved , is is one of the northern pirates ( anno S 6 i ) , called Nadodd , ' who was thrown b y a storm on an island . never before discovered , which on account of the snow that lay on the hi gh mountains , he called ' Schnee or Snow land ; from the report he made , a Swede , by name Guarda Snafarsson
, who was settled in Denmark , undertook an expedition thither ( 864 ) , and haying sailed quite round it , named it Gardaholm ^ or Gardar's Island . Having wintered there , on his return he made such , a good report , that another Swede , named Flocke , sailed to the same Island , and wintered there on the north side of the island , where he met with a great quantity of drift ice , on which account he named it Iceland , a name it still bears . It is said these people , who first discovered it , found , on landing , some Irish books , bells , and bishops' croziers ; if so , some other adventurers must have
been there before . them . " ' : Our king Alfred was informed by one Ohthere , a man of some consequence , from Norway , that he had / proceeded due north from his own country , and sailed within three days as far north as the whale hunters go ; then proceeded eastward for four davs , and then by hel p of a northerlwindhe sailed due south for five days from
y , : this account of his voyage we may judge , that he doubled the north cape , and entered the White Sea . Ohthere being a contemporary wuh Alfred , points out nearl y the time of this voyage . The people of anti quity made use of sails but seldom , and that Only when the wind was fair ; if it was contrary , they were obliged