...first attempted in Europe ; but it is said that it was in the commercial states of Italy, even before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. The wealthy republics of that fertile country had, until that discovery was made, been the medium...

...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing, enriches the kingdom. VIII. It is to the discovery of the passage to India, by the cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted .their conquests and established...

...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing, enriches the kingdom. VIII. It is to the discovery of the passage to India, by the cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established...

...the more detailed history of their progress commences. Though the merchants of Great Britain, after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope (AD 1497), made early efforts to share with the Portuguese in the rich trade which was carried...

...retained an immense population.* In the thirteenth century, its commerce had somewhat revived ; but the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, towards the close of the fifteenth century, finally destroyed its commercial greatness. The modern...

...of cotton goods in Europe, it is said, was first attempted by the commercial states of Italy, before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. These enterprising communities had, till then, been the medium through which the cotton fabrics...

...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing, enriches the kingdom. VIII. It is to the discovery of the passage to India, by the cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established...

...starry worlds which were described by the Columbus of the heavens. Printing, and the use of fire arms, the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, which accompanied that of America, and the subsequent circumnavigation of the globe, the invention...

...the accidental discovery of Brazil a few years later, by the Portuguese fleet fitted out to profit by the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, says, " Columbus's discovery of the New World was the effort of an active genins, guided by experience,...

...indebted, a second time, for her deliverance from Turkish bondage. — " It is," says Dr. R., " to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests, and established...