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affairs, when the past and the present are alike sunk in the oblivious abyss of time, when De Gama is no more heard of, and a faint tradition alone records the doubtful power and opulence of the British isles, then shall some other transcendent genius arise, who, braving this foaming ocean with equal difficulty and equal glory, shall claim the honour of a first discoverer.
———Venient annis
Secula seris; quibus oceanus
Vincula rerum lazet, et ingens
Pateat tellus, Typhisque novos
Deteget orbes; nec sit terris
Ultima Thule.Seneca Medea.
Scarce had we cleared the land, ere the favourable wind left us, and veering to the eastward, continued to blow from that quarter far eleven days; but by the
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