A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight
- Title
- A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight
- Author
- Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583.
- Publication
- Imprinted at London :: By Henry Middleton for Richarde Ihones,
- Anno. Domini. 1576. Aprilis. 12.
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- Subject terms
- Early maps -- Early works to 1800.
- Northwest Passage -- Early works to 1800.
- Link to this Item
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- Cite this Item
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"A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01749.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- GEORGE GASCOIGNE Esquire to the Reader.
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A PROPHETICAL SO∣net of the same
George Gascoine, vpon the commendable trauaile whichSir Humfrey Gilbert hath dis∣closed in this worke. - ¶A LETTER OF SIR Humfrey Gilbert, Knight, sent to his Brother, Sir IOHN GILBERT, of Compton, in the Countie of Deuon Knight, concerning the discourse of this Discouerie.
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The Table of the matters con∣teyned in euerie
Chapter of this Booke. - map
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To proue a passage by authori∣tie to be on the Northside of AMERICA, to goe to CATAIA,
China, and the EastIndia. &c.-
To proue by reason, a passage to be on the Northside of
AMERICA: to goe toCATAIA, &c, Cap. 2. -
To proue by experience of sun∣drie mens trauels, the opening of some part of this
Northvvest passage: wher∣by good hope remaineth of the rest.Cap. 3. -
To proue by circumstance, that the
Northvvest passage, hath beene say∣led thorough out. Cap. 4. -
To prooue that these
Indians a∣forenamed, came not by theSoutheast, Southvvest, nor from any other part ofAfrik, orAmerica. Cap. 5. -
¶To prooue that those
Indians came not by theNortheast, & that ther is no thorow Nauigable passage that way. Cap. 6. -
To prooue that the
Indians a∣forenamed, came onely by theNorth∣vvest, which induceth a certeintie of our passage by experience. Cap. 7. -
Certaine reasons, alledged for the prouing of a passage by the
North∣east, before theQueenes Maiestie, and certaine Lordes of the Counsell, with my seuerall answeres, then vsed to the same. Cap. 8. -
¶ How that the passage by the
Northvvest, is more commodious for our traffik, then the other by theEast: if there were any such. Cap. 9. - ¶ VVhat commodities woulde ensue, this passage once discouered. Cap. 10.
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To proue by reason, a passage to be on the Northside of
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