for _near_ read _nearly_
28. 36. for _could sail_ read _could formerly sail_.
86. 6. for _Egypt_ read _India_.
87. 22. for _Leucke_ read _Leuke_.
102. 5. for _principal_ read _principle_.
213. 9. for _work_ read _worm_.
281. 28. for _Ebor_ read _Ebn_.
282. 20. for _Ebor_ read _Ebn_.
5O7. 22. for _as_ read _than_.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY, &c. &c.
CHAPTER I.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY, AND OF COMMERCIAL
ENTERPRISE, FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS, TO THE TIME OF HERODOTUS. B.C. 450.
The earliest traces of navigation and commerce are necessarily involved in
much obscurity, and are, besides, few and faint. It is impossible to assign
to them any clear and definite chronology; and they are, with a few
exceptions, utterly uncircumstantial. Nevertheless, in a work like this,
they ought not to be passed over without some notice; but the notice we
shall bestow upon them will not be that either of the chronologist or
antiquarian, but of a more popular, appropriate, and useful description.
The intercourse of one nation with another first took place in that part of
the world to which a knowledge of the original habitation of mankind, and
of the advantages for sea and land commerce which that habitation enjoyed,
would naturally lead us to assign it.
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