Uomo a mare : O, una storia di avventura marittima, esplorazione e scoperta, sin dalla più tenera età al tempo presente ... . Ts professionisti commerciali-perity. I cittadini, essendo desiderosi di ampliare le loro maritimerelations, inviato a questo periodo, su una spedizione verso il nord dell'uomo a mare. 71 Europa, attraverso le colonne d'Ercole, un dotto geographerand astronomo dal nome di Pytheas. Ha iniziato con la nave asingle, le finanze della città non permettendo una maggiore outlayof mezzi. Ha passato i pilastri del sedicesimo giorno di Massilia;e sul ventesimo arrivò a Sacr

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Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . ts commercial pros-perity. The citizens, being desirous of extending their maritimerelations, sent, at this period, upon an expedition to the North of MAN UPON THE SEA. 71 Europe, through the Pillars of Hercules, a learned geographerand astronomer by the name of Pytheas. He started with asingle ship, the finances of the city not permitting a larger outlayof means. He passed the Pillars on the sixteenth day from Massilia;and on the twentieth he arrived at the Sacred Promontory, theextreme western point of Iberia or Spain. A temple toHercules had been erected at this spot. The inhabitants of thepromontory declared, during the time of Pytheas, and, indeed, for two hundred years afterwards, that as the sun plunged atevening into the sea, they.heard a hissing like that of a red-hot body suddenly dropped into water. Following the coasts of Iberia and of Celtica, he came to thepoint of land now known as Finisterre, in France, and thepromontory Calbium. Turning to the east, he was surprised to. PLAN OF PYTHEAS VOYAGE. find himself in a wide gulf, with Celtica on his right, and animmense island on his left. The gulf was the British Channel, and the island the Al-Bion that Himilcon had vaguely dis-cerned some centuries before. It was at this point that Pytheasmay be said to have begun his career; *md the discovery ofGreat Britain may safely be attributed to him. He described the island as having the form of an isoscelestriangle, as may be seen upon the foregoing plan. Three pro-montories formed the three angles, —Belerium beino- now Lands 72 MAN UPON THE SEA. End, Cantium Cape Pepperness, and Orcas Duncansby Head.He found the inhabitants of the southern coast industrious andsociable, peaceable, honest, and sober. They raised wheat andworked rich mines of tin. As he sailed northward, along theeastern coast, he noticed that the days grew sensibly l

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