The history of ancient America, anterior to the time of Columbus; proving the identity of the aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by the Apostle St. Thomas / By George Jones. The Tyrian æra.

  • George, Count Joannes
Date:
1843
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Credit: The history of ancient America, anterior to the time of Columbus; proving the identity of the aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by the Apostle St. Thomas / By George Jones. The Tyrian æra. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eclipse, plainly testified that the planet upon which we live was round. ‘The travels of Marco Paulo by land to the East Indies (about 1269), related that those lands stretched far towards the east.. About two cen- turies after this, it occurred to Columbus, upon pe- rusing those travels; but more especially from having obtained intelligence from the final conquest of the Canary islands in 1483; and information while resident in England (which circumstances will be investigated hereafter), that by a voyage towards the west—thus travelling, as it were, around the globe—he should meet the extremities of those lands; and as the dis- covery of a sea-passage to the East Indies was the great object of navigation in the fifteenth century, Columbus made the bold attempt (founded upon pre- vious knowledge of migration), and discovered the island of St. Salvador and those adjacent, and think- ing that he had reached the eastern extremity of the Indies according to his theory, he then named those isles the West Indies, because they were discovered by sailing west. The discovery of the Continent fol- lowed during his third voyage, and believing all the land to be of the Indies, the inhabitants of the isles and of the mainland were, as a natural consequence, called by Columbus under one general appellation, _viz., Indians. Subsequent geographical discoveries have proved the great error of the Genoese; but the name of Indian was given at that time, and it has been continued although at variance with the truth; and tt has had a material effect in checking imquiry
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