History of England From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles 1713 17
History of England From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles 1713 17
Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope
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* His instructions, bearing date the 17th of June, 1764, commence as follows: "Whereas nothing can " redound more to the honour of this nation as a maritime " power, to the dignity of the Crown of Great Britain, ; ' and to the advancement of the trade and navigation " thereof, than to make discoveries of countries hitherto " unknown . " The main scope for such discoveries in the reign, and by the wish, of George the Third, was that vast ocean which, dividing Asia from America, extends from pole... to pole. It was on the 25th of September, 1513, that this Ocean was first beheld by European eyes. On that day Vitsco Nunez, of Balboa, advancing with a party of Spaniards through the isthmus of Darien, and apprised * Look back to p. 39. Of the third, and to p. 272. Of the present volume. T 4 280 HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAP. UX. by his Indian guides that the " Sea of the South " was near, commanded his men to halt, and climbed a moun- tain-summit alone. There, as the long-desired spectacle blessed his view, he fell upon his knees, and returned thanks to God ; and when marching onwards they had come close upon the waves, he entered them, with his sword in one hand and his shield in the other, and ex- claimed that he took possession of that sea in the name of his liege-lords, the Kings of Leon and Castille.
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