. La narrazione della scoperta e dell'avventura nei mari polari e regioni [microformati] : con le illustrazioni del loro clima, di geologia e di storia naturale ; e di un account della balena-pesca. Storia naturale; Sciences Naturelles. Antica Voyages. 97 la natura. Sembra difficile, tuttavia supporre, con Bougainville, che ha proceduto per quanto riguarda l'Islanda; sebbene ci sia poco douht che è entrato nel Baltico, e portato a casa anche una corretta in considerazione delle sue rive, quindi noto per il popolo del Mediterraneo quasi esclusivamente dalla qualità dell'ambra che è stata quindi importato. L'impresa di Py

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. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ANCIENT VOYAGES. 97 nature. It seems difficult, however, to suppose, with Bougainville, that he proceeded as far as Iceland; though there is little douht that he entered the Baltic, and also brought home a correct account of its shores, then known to the people on the Mediterranean almost solely by the qualities of the amber which was thence imported. The enterprise of Pytheas, though apparently quite authentic, did not lead to any change in the course of the Massylian trade. It was probably found both cheaper and more convenient to transport the produc- tions of Britain through Gaul, than to convey them by means of such a lengthened and perilous voyage. The only other additions to ancient knowledge respecting the northern seas were made by the Romans, who, in order to conquer, were obliged to explore the earth. Agricola, before undertaking the campaign which was to reduce Scotland into a province, sent fleets to explore its most northern shores and bays. His countrymen, however, do not appear to have sent in that direction, nor perhaps in any other, naval expeditions having dis- covery alone for their object. Their delineation of Caledonia itself is excessively rude; and though they had traced the shores of Europe eastward as far as Russia, the great peninsula of Scandinavia appeared to them only as a cluster of islands. In the decline of the Roman empire, that country, formerly so little regar4ipd, became the seat of a most for- midable maritime power. Norway, under the terrible dominion of Harold the Fairhaired, Denmark, under Gorm and Canute, sent forth fleets which pillaged all the coasts of Europe, and reduced many of them to subjec- tion. Their movements, however, were from the North, not to the North; and their objects were not science,

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