Six Letters On Foxs Acts And Monuments Addressed to the Editor of the British
Six Letters On Foxs Acts And Monuments Addressed to the Editor of the British
Samuel Roffey Maitland
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] LETTER V. "The world, " says Fox, "being commonly divided into three parts, Asia, Africa, and Europe ; Asia is counted to be the greatest in compass, " iv. 88. Whether we ought to understand from this that Fox had not heard of America, I do not know, and the editor does not undertake to decide. LETTER V. 51 He merely appends a note, " On the 4th of August, 1498, the great continent of America was discovered by Columbus; the above observations were made by Foxe, about 1566. ED. " One would thi...nk that the news must by that time have reached England; but some of Fox's geography might almost lead us to doubt whether it had reached him. To be sure, he elsewhere tells a story of " one Villegaignon, lieu- tenant for the French king, who made a voyage into the land of Brasil with certain French ships, " and further states (referring, I suppose, to his followers) that he " sent certain of them away in a ship to the river Plata, towards the pole antarctic, a thousand miles off. " iv. 440. But what idea Fox really had, or would be likely to convey to a general reader, respecting those localities, is a matter on which opinions may differ ; and let us, therefore, proceed to what is more clear.
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