 | Auguste Henri de Trémaudan - 1915 - 362 páginas
...1 It may not be out of place to mention here the name of Laurent Ferrer Maldonado, a Spaniard, who was supposed to have passed in 1588 from the coast of Labrador to the Pacific Ocean, calling the passage the Strait of Anian. The book relating this most wonderful achievement... | |
 | 1816 - 592 páginas
...be found to break the continuity of tlie line of coast of North-west America, between 53* and 6O° of N. latitude; 'in order to discover the strait by...of the expedition appears from a letter of a friend ef Malaspina, employed on the voyage, which was seen by Amoretti, and which states that the journal... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1999 - 518 páginas
...journal of such a voyage, as the one in question; having sent so recently as l789, the corvettes las Discubierta et I'Atravida, under the orders of Malaspina,...Laurent Ferrer Maldonado was supposed to have passed in l588, from the coast of Labrador to the Great Ocean.' That this was the main object of the expedition... | |
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Spain once regarded it otherwise; for her government in 1789 sent out an expedition "to discover the strait by which Maldonado was supposed to have passed in 1588 from the coast of Labrador to the great ocean." The expedition was not successful, and nothing... 
