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P. 491. “In twelve days from the Straits of Gibraltar he (Hanno) reached: the ‘ small island of Cerné or Arguin.”

The voyage of Hanno, brief as it is, contains circumstances and particulars suffi- + cient to establish its veracity; and the assumption of Arguin for Cerné is the more probable from its offering convenience for a Portuguese settlement, as it had done to a Carthaginian colony. It answers likewise to the local circumstances given by Hanno. Campomanes has wildly carried Cerné to St. Thomas's, under the equator, while Arguin lies in latitude 21° north, See Major Rennell’s Dissertation, Geography of Herodotus, p.719. V.

P. 492. “The geographer Scylax denies the possibility of navigating beyond 4 Cerné in a shallow and muddy ocean.’

Scylax agrees with Aristotle in supposing that the Atlantic communicates with the Indian Ocean, but says the navigation to the south was impracticable on account of the weedy sea, through which a ship could not make her way. ‘This is an illustrious truth, for the weed called salgasso does occur about Cape Blanco for many degrees,

” though moveable in bulk; and this proves that the ancients did navigate the Atlantic as low or lower than 20° north latitude. V.

P. 493. “ The single and hasty assertion of the elder Pliny.”

It is strange that Mickle should have been misled by the authority of Pliny. But

he asserts, in contradiction to his own genius of the Cape, “ It is certain that Hanno doubled the Cape of Good Hope.” Lusiad, p.2. V.

P. 496. Nore. “ The English translator of Camoens justifies this impropriety “ by an old Syriac version of Homer.”

Asserted by Abulpharage. V.

Ib. “ According to the most liberal computation, Vasco de Gama discovered ‘ no more than twenty degrees of southern latitude from the Cape of Good Hope to Mozambique.”

Gama went as high as Melinda. V.

Ib. “ The African trade of the Portuguese, as it is described by Mosto.”

The voyage of Cadamosto in Ramusio gives the particulars of Prince Henry's contracts with the navigators he employed, and is equally honourable to his integrity and bis wisdom. He drew much of his information from Venice, and was rejoiced to tempt a Venetian mariner into his service.

Cadamosto is a Venetian abbreviation of Casa di Mosto: this man was of the house, or family, of Mosto. V.