...defence of the kingdom. But in the reign of this monarch a great impetus was given to naval enterprise, the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope having been then discovered by the Portuguese, while Columbus realized his theory of the existence...

...by the Dutch when they landed in the Isle of France, at that time uninhabited, after the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, is already gone. This bird was of a large size and singular form; its wings were short like those of...

...favourably situated for trade with the Levant, and all other parts of the Mediterranean Sea. Before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope was discovered; before navigation was brought to any degree of perfection in Europe, the republics...

...manufactures, and, of late, stimulated with the unwonted energy infused by the discovery of the new World and of the passage to the East Indies by the cape of Good Hope, waa multiplying the sinews of power and the sources of political importance in the hands of this class....

...Cape Verde Islands. 2 What is here termed the discovery of the islands of Calicut, or in other words, the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, was not accomplished until the year 1498. But in 1487, the practicability of the passage was proved...

...country, of which continent Abyssinia was then considered to form a part. In 1487, the practicability of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, being no longer problematical, the Portuguese sovereign naturally desired to be better acquainted with the...

...while equal life, • Venice was the most flourishing city in Europe, with repa nl to trade before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered. t Those who fled to aomo marshes in the Adriatic gulf, from the desolation...

...world, and would only have been surpassed by those of modern Europe since the discovery of America, and of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Dr Husscl's Barbary Stales, Ed. Cab. Cjrcl. p. 22. Foreign Quarterly Review, No. S7, p. 225. See Herodotus...

...land at about the 76th deg. of west longitude, to which he gave the name of St. Salvador. At that time the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope was unknown, and the only means of access to that part of the world was either overland or across the...

...printing press gave a novel power of disseminating thoughts new and old. The discovery of America and of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope quickened the spirit of mercantile adventure ; and generally set men thinking freely and independently...