Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . htxk ftmniuni^. New World and Reformation. Chapter xcix.—land, ho!. AS the World flat or round ?Had the Ocean anothershore? What kind of averge or precipice wasdrawn around the cloudyrim of Nature? WhatJ vision of wonder and perilmight arise upon the mariners sight— Beyond the extreme sea-wall and between theremote sea-gates? If a man go, could he retur
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . htxk ftmniuni^. New World and Reformation. Chapter xcix.—land, ho!. AS the World flat or round ?Had the Ocean anothershore? What kind of averge or precipice wasdrawn around the cloudyrim of Nature? WhatJ vision of wonder and perilmight arise upon the mariners sight— Beyond the extreme sea-wall and between theremote sea-gates? If a man go, could he return again ? Such were the queries with which the ad-venturous brain of New Europe began to busyitself as the shadows of the Epoch of Darknessrolled away to the horizon. The vigorous sail-ors of th ; maritime Republics and tlie daringtravelers who had gone up to Jerusalem andthence down to India thought they perceivedthe sphericity of the earth, that the Holy Citywas on the crest or ridge of the world! Moreparticularly did those who journeyed north-ward and southward behold the stars risingoverhead or sinking to the horizon in a wayunaccountable except on the notion that theearth is round. From the shores of Portugal and Spain,from Brest and Lands End, from the Skager Rack, the Orkneys and Iceland, the m
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