This volume specifically focuses on the history of navigation, discov-
ery, and commerce, emphasizing the voyages undertaken to explore the New
World, particularly those made by Christopher Columbus and his contem-
poraries. At the start of this volume, the author lays out his intention to
present a systematic history of America's discovery, beginning with a nar-
rative written by Columbus' son, Don Ferdinand Columbus. This section
discusses Columbus's motivations, early life, and the events leading to his
voyages across the Atlantic. It also touches upon the various accounts of his
expeditions, offering insights into the motivations and life of the iconic navi-
gator, while also questioning the accuracy and integrity of rival accounts and
contributions from other explorers like Amerigo Vespucci. The narrative
sets a tone of reverence for Columbus's contributions to exploration, while
also addressing misconceptions and historical debates regarding his legacy.
Overall, the opening portion establishes a foundation for a detailed explo-
ration of the impact of these voyages on global history.
With the generality of mankind, so far from imagining that there could be
any such country as the new world or West Indies, the very notion of any
such thing being supposed to existwas considered as extravagant and absurd,
for every one believed that all to the westwards of the Canary islands was an
immense and unnavigable ocean. Yet some of the ancients have left hints
that such western lands existed. In the close of the second act of his tragedy
of Medea, Seneca says, "The time will come, when the ocean shall become
navigable, and a vast land or New World shall be discovered." St Gregory, in
his exposition of the Epistle of St Clement, says, "There is a new world, or
even worlds, beyond the ocean." We are informed by other authors, that a
Carthaginian merchant ship accidentally discovered in the ocean, many days
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