A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 - Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the - Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, - by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Ti by Robert Kerr
page 55 of 674 (08%)
page 55 of 674 (08%)
 | |
|
[23] Gonz. Fern. Ovied. I. 2. c. 3. [24] Plin. I. 9. c. 58. de Maribus Nili. [25] Joan. Leo Afric. I. 9. de Nilo.--Our author has got into a strange dilemma, by confounding crocodiles and serpents under one denomination. --E. [26] Plin. and Leo, ub. cit. [27] Plin. I. 2. c. 67. [28] Plin. I. 6. c. 31. This subject will be discussed in the _Fifth_ Part of our work; being much too extensive to admit of elucidation in a note.--E. [29] Hasty readers will have the justice to give the honour of this story to Galvano.--E. [30] This story will be found hereafter very differently related by Cada Mosto himself, but with a sufficient spice of the marvellous.--E. [31] The Honey-guide, or Cuculus Indicator, will be noticed more particularly in the Travels through the Colony of the Cape.--E. [32] The Philosophers of the _nineteenth_ century have _fortunately_ rediscovered the _Mermaid_ in the north of Scotland! Hitherto, wonderful things used to be confined to barbarous regions and ignorant ages.--E. |
|
