Chapter VI
Dora Leigh translation
CHAPTER VI.
I. THE GREAT CORSAIR.
William Dampier; or a Sea-King of the Seventeenth Century
II. THE POLE AND AMERICA.
Hudson and Baffin—Champlain and La Sale—The English upon the coast of the Atlantic—The Spaniards in South America—Summary of the information acquired at the close of the 17th century—The measure of the terrestrial degree—Progress of cartography—Inauguration of Mathematical Geography
