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Title: A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America: in respect to the situation and extent of empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their climates, soil, produce, &c. ...
Year: 1767 (1760s)
Authors: Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : Printed for J. Knox
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
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at parts the gulph of Suez from the Medi-terranean is faid. to be about 50 miles broad; and feveral ofthe ancient kings of Egypt, fenfible of the vaft advantage itwould be to cut a paffage between the Red Sea and the Medi-terranean, attempted it at different times with immenfe labour andcharge. We are informed by Herodotus, that in the time ofNecus, or Phara.oh Necho, a plan was laid for it, which wasobliged to be laid afide, after 120,000 men had periihed in theundertaking. This work was again refumed under the Ptolemies,but was once more relinquifhed; from the apprehenfion that theRed iea being higher by three cubits than Egypt, would overflowit. However a fafer expedient was fell upon, which was to diga canal that (hould join the Red Sea with the Nile. Upo^i thisthe ports of the latter began to grow very famed and opulent;and the cities of Coptus and Berenice, became ■ the centre andmart for all the merchandize brought from India. But thiscanal being negledled went to ruin. about
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\. DE GAMAs DISCOVERY, &c. 299 about 50 miles; and thence, to Alexandria, wherethe Venetian merchants, who then had that trade en-tirely in their own hands, received them, exportedthem chiefly to Venice; and from thence to all thetrading ports of Europe. This was the ancient, and at that time the only-way of carrying on commicrce between Europe andthe Indies: it was the Portugueze who had the ho-nour of firft finding a dire6l communication with theeailern feas. The Portugueze have been always famous for theirapplication to maritime afiairs : atter they had driventhe Moors out of their country, they followed theminto their own, and, under the reign of King John theFirft, defeated them in a great battle, and took fromthem the fortrefs of Ceuta, which ftill remains in thepower of the king of Spain. It was to the zeal and magnanimity of the InfantDon Henry, the fifth Ton of King John, that the Por-tugueze ftand indebted for all that glory which theyhave acquired by their difcoveries a

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