Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World
CHAPTER VI.
I. THE GREAT CORSAIR.
William Dampier; or a Sea-King of the Seventeenth Century . . . 409
II. THE POLE AND AMERICA.
Hudson and Baffin--Champlain and La Sale--The English upon the coast of the Atlantic--The Spaniards in South America--Summary of the information acquired at the close of the 17th century-- The measure of the terrestrial degree--Progress of cartography-- Inauguration of Mathematical Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415