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Excerpt from A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot: With a Review of the History of Maritime DiscoveryWas too deeply intrenched to permita hope of dislodging it, unless through the regular, though tedious, forms of investment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

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Excerpt from A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot: With a Review of the History of Maritime DiscoveryThus the.dead, of the most remote age, are sum moned to appear before this tribunal, and a charge is to be taken for confessed, unless an Answer be put in before the period (which yet is left indefinite) when the Sup plement shall go to press. We may smile at this sally of self-importance, but ought not to forget that the au thority of these volumes, Wh...

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Published in 1831 in response to efforts to discredit the explorer and cartographer Sebastian Cabot (c.1481-1557), this account aimed to counter the claims of those who thought him an imposter. It prompted further research into the Cabots, who initiated English trade beyond the confines of Europe.

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Biddle's memoir is one of the earliest American works of serious and critical historical scholarship, and the major source and inspiration for subsequent articles on the Cabots for the next forty years. Biddle stressed the achievements and pre-eminence of Sebastian over his father John. In addition to the voyages of the Cabots, Biddle also discusses those of Cortereal, Columbus, Verrazano, Frobisher, and Hudson.An important work for anyone int...