Volume 1

A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index.

  • Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    43 \ BOOK I. Arrival of the f&rtu- puefe in the Lift Indies, A geogra- phical de- fc'iption of Alia, HISTORY OF SETTLEMENTS AND TRADE padage to India, gave it the name of the Cape of Good Hope. Emanuel purfued the plan marked out by his predecefibrs. On the 18th of July 1497, he fent out a fleet confiding of four Ihips, and gave the command of it to Vafco de Gama. This admiral, having weathered feveral dorms in his crude along the eadern coads of Africa, and attempted feas before unknow’n, landed at length in Indodan, af- ter a voyage of thirteen months. Asia, of which Indodan is one of the riched parts, is a vad continent, lying, according to the obfervations of the Rufl'ians, the truth of which has been juflly doubted, between the 43d and the 207th degree of longitude. It extends, in a di- rection from one pole to the other, from the 77th degree of northern to the 10th degree of i'outhern latitude. That part of this large continent which is dtuated in the temperate zone, between the 35th and 50th degree of latitude, appears to be higher than the red : it is bordered both towards the north and fouth by two vad chains of moun- tains, which run almod from the wedern extre- mity of Ada Minor and the coads of the Black Sea, to the ocean that wadies the coads of China and Tartary towards the eafl. Thefe two chains are united by other intermediate chains, in a di- rection from fouth to north ; they branch out to- wards the Northern, the Indian, and Eadern oceans, and appear like fo many bulwarks railed between the beds of the large rivers which roll through thefe immenfe regions. Si CH