An Enquiry Into The Truth Of The Tradition, Concerning The Discovery Of America, By Prince Madog Ab Owen Gwynedd, About The Year, 1170
John Williams
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AN ENQUIRY INTO THE TRUTH OF THE TRADITION, CONCERNING THE Discovery of America, by Prince MADOG ab Owen Gwynedd, ABOUT THE YEAR, 1170.
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE TRUTH OF THE TRADITION, CONCERNING THE Discovery of America, by Prince MADOG ab Owen Gwynedd, ABOUT THE YEAR, 1170.
By JOHN WILLIAMS, L. L. D. Hic, ubi nunc Roma est orbis caput, arbor et herbæ, Et paucæ pecudes, et casa rara fuit. Ov. Fast. L. 5. v. 93. LONDON: M. DCC XCI....
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PREFACE
PREFACE
The following Observations are with Diffidence given to the Public; because the Subject is rather obscure and uncertain. However, it is presumed that there are stronger Reasons for admitting the Truth of Prince Madog's landing on the American Shores, than for the contrary. There are many Relations in History, which have obtained Credit, that appear to me, not so well supported as this Tradition. We find allusions to it in the Writings of Ancient British Bards, who were dead before Columbus saile
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ERRATA.
ERRATA.
The Reader will be so candid as to excuse the above Errors, and others which may have been overlooked. Those in the Welsh could hardly have been avoided, as the Printer has no Knowledge of the Welsh Tongue. The following Observations having been omitted, in their proper places; I beg leave to insert them as an Appendix. In page 37. a passage is cited from the Universal History, Vol. XX. where it is said, on the supposed authority of Hakluyt, that Prince Madog made three Voyages to the West. Hump
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Published by the same Author.
Published by the same Author.
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