Volume 2

The commerce and navigation of the ancients in the Indian Ocean / By William Vincent.

  • William Vincent
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The commerce and navigation of the ancients in the Indian Ocean / By William Vincent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ir is due to the consummate abilities of the most experienced commanders, exercised under this patronage and direction, that a | solution has been given to three of the greatest problems that concern the world which we inhabit ; for it is now determined by a suc- cession of voyages commenced and _prose- cuted by Your Majesty's command, that the Entrance into the Pacifick Ocean by a pas- sage either on the North West or North East is impracticable, and that the Existence of a great Southern Continent had nothing but theory for its support. It has likewise been proved that, in consequence of Your Ma- jesty’s instructions, distant nations may be visited, not for the purpose of subjugation, but for the interchange of mutual benefits, and for promoting the general intercourse of 4,
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