Some Observations On the Letters of Amerigo Vespucci
Some Observations On the Letters of Amerigo Vespucci
M F Manning Ferguson Force
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, proceeding thence to twenty degrees N. , and eight hundred and seventy leagues beyond that, in thirteen months. Ojeda sailed in 1499, reached the shores of South America in thirty degrees N. , and spent three months on the coast, making in all six hundred leagues along the shore. The letter makes Vespucci return to Cadiz in October, 1499, while Ojida did not return till June, 1500. If we accept the suggestion of Humboldt that Ves- pucci, with one vessel or more, left Ojeda at Haiti and procee...ded at once to Cadiz, still the letter can not in any real sense be called a narrative of Ojeda's voyage. M. De Varnhagen, in his paper read before the Societe de Geographic, in Paris, in 1858, rejected the idea that the letter is to be regarded as an attempted description of Ojeda's voyage, and accepting the dates, latitudes, 15 and distances as given in the letter, maintains that Ves- pucci made, in 1497, an unrecorded voyage along the coast of South, Central, and North America, circling the entire Gulf of Mexico, doubling Florida, and ex- tending into the Gulf of St.
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