Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . their foodthrough an orifice in the nose. These exaggerations are un-worthy of notice; and they do not seem to have thrown dis-credit upon the account of the earlier experience of Eudoxus,which ranks among the most esteemed narratives of ancientmaritime adventure. We have thus given, in some detail, descriptions of all thenoteworthy experiments in navigation previous to the birth ofChrist. Two features, it will be at once remarked, charac-terized all these effort
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . their foodthrough an orifice in the nose. These exaggerations are un-worthy of notice; and they do not seem to have thrown dis-credit upon the account of the earlier experience of Eudoxus,which ranks among the most esteemed narratives of ancientmaritime adventure. We have thus given, in some detail, descriptions of all thenoteworthy experiments in navigation previous to the birth ofChrist. Two features, it will be at once remarked, charac-terized all these efforts:—1st, The only reliable propelling forcecontinued to lie in the oars; and, 2d, no sailor ventured outof sight of land, unless, as when crossing the Mediterranean,he knew that other lands lay beyond the visible horizon. Weclose this division of the subject with the general observation,that the opening of the Christian era found the world almostentirely under Roman dominion,—one which preferred extendingits sway by land to prosecuting discovery by sea. The Medi-terranean was, thus far, the only seat of commerce and the ex-. THE DOGE OF VENICE WEDDING THE ADRIATIC. MAN UPON THE SEA. 83 elusive scene of navigation. Though Hanno and Eudoxus hadindeed passed the Pillars of Hercules, and had coasted alongthe African shore as far as the negro territories, and thoughPytheas, proceeding to the north, had visited—still huggingthe land—the Baltic and the British Channel, their expeditionsmust be considered as at once venturesome and futile, for theage was not able to repeat them, and totally failed to makethem useful either to geography or commerce. As long as thecentre of power, of luxury, of wealth, remains within the Medi-terranean, as long as Tyre, Sidon, Rome, Carthage, succes-sively control the destinies of the world, so long shall we findmankind lacking both the motive and the means to seek newworlds, by sea, beyond. Time, however, will furnish both themotive and the means
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