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Title: The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies.
Year: 1778 (1770s)
Authors: Russell, William, 1741-1793. cn
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Publisher: London : Printed for Fielding and Walker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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of navigation, and infpir-in» them withjuft notions of the enterprife in which they were engaged, as wellas in refitting his fhips and taking in frefh provifions. On putting again to fea,he held his courfe due weft, leaving at once the ufual tract of navigation,and launching boldly into an ; ocean with whofe extreme fhores he was un-acquainted, and where he had no chart to guide him, in queft of countries whichperhaps exifted only in his own imagination. Nor were thefe the only difficulties Columbus had to ftruggle with, or the onlydangers he was deftined to encounter. No fooner had he loft fight of land thanmany of his failors, already dejected and dilmayed, beat their breads and fhedtears, notwithftanding all his endeavours to animate them. They began to con-fider his enterprife as the defperate project of a rafh adventurer, who wouldfoon hurry them to deftru&ion. Happily, however, Columbus pofieflld that * Herrea, dec. I. lib. i. Life of Columbu?, c. 15. t Ut fupra. undaunted
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THE HISTORY OF AMERICA. 19 undaunted courage and prefence of mind, which triumphs amid the great- CHAP. II.eft perils, and never fails to infpire confidence. He appeared always cool ^—-~v^~—and unconcerned, comforted his crew with affurances of fuccefs, and the pro-fpect of vaft wealth in thofe oppulent regions whither he was conducting them :he regulated every thing by his ible authority, he fuperintended the execution ofevery order ; and allowing himfelf only a few hours for fleep, he was at all othertimes upon deck, where his uncommon fkill in his profeffion made him be re-garded as a fuperior being *. As Columbus was fenfible that the length of the voyage muft alarm failorsaccuftomed only to fhort excurfions, he endeavoured to conceal from them theprogrefs they had made, by deceiving them in their reckoning. But othercircumftances confpired to fill them with apprehenfions, which all his addrefs wasfcarcely able to difpel. When they were fomewhat upwards of two hundredleagues t

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