Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier

Early Australian Voyages, by John Pinkerton
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Title: Early Australian Voyages
Author: John Pinkerton Release Date: April 13, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #2660]
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Transcribed from the 1886 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
EARLY AUSTRALIAN VOYAGES BY JOHN PINKERTON
Contents: Introduction Pelsart Tasman Dampier
INTRODUCTION.
In the days of Plato, imagination found its way, before the mariners, to a new world across the Atlantic, and fabled an Atlantis where America now stands. In the days of Francis Bacon, imagination of the English found its way to the great Southern Continent before the Portuguese or Dutch sailors had sight of it, and it was the home of those wise students of God and nature to whom Bacon gave his New Atlantis. The discoveries of America date from the close of the fifteenth century. The discoveries of Australia date only from the beginning of the seventeenth. The discoveries of the Dutch were little known in England before the time of Dampier’s voyage, at ...