Author: Julian Hawthorne

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-29

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 9780267144976

Excerpt from History of Washington, Vol. 1 of 2: The Evergreen State From Early Dawn to Daylight; With Portraits and Biographies Firstly, we propose, for the better enlightenment of the reader of this, our story of Washington, to reopen, with some little ceremony and minuteness of' description, the three great doors whose long-sealed portals, thanks to the brave energy of Columbus, Balboa, and Magellan, gave, in the sequence of their successive discoveries, three gateways through which the civiliza. Tion of the world poured in to reach and occupy, first, the eastern, then the western shores of the South American conti nent and then, in the fulness of time, those of our own north west coasts. To this will naturally follow, as briefly as may be, some notice of later voyages and attempts, more or less successful, to exam ine and settle our own western boundary, not only the explora tions of Spain, but of those who emulated her - the Russian, the Dutch, the English, and American navigators whose united efforts mapped out our geography of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.