A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order, Vol. 3: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeThe globe of Martin Behaim in l 492, repeats the island of Antillia, and inserts beyond it to the west, the isle of St Bran den or Ima, from a fabulous work of the middle ages. Occa sion has already occurred to notice two other ancient pretend ed discoveries of the New World: the fabulous voyages of the Zenos, another Venetian tale, and the equally fabulous Por tu ese island of the Swen Chart-lies, abounding in gold. And in abited by Spanish or Portuguese Christians. Britain even had its Madoc prince of horth Wales, and a white nomadic nation in North America, speaking Welsh, is still among the puerile fancies of this nineteenth century.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.