MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS

Summary

“Then from ancient gloom emerg'd

The rising world of Trade; the Genius then

Of Navigation, that in hopeless sloth,

Had slumber'd on the vast Atlantic deep,

For idle ages–”

Thomson.

Additional observations on the Periplus of Hanno. Mr. Falconer's translation of it noticed. M. Bougainville's opinion of this celebrated navigator. First origin of the maritime power of the ancient Chinese, Indians, Persians, Ethiopians, and Grecians.–Argonautic voyage.–Minos.–Dædalus.

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We have traced the progress of Navigation, and Commerce, to the establishment of the Carthaginian power, without branching into a collateral narrative of those States in which the maritime character had also early appeared: obliged, by the nature of our work, to give a confined and limited view of the subject, and that often interrupted, from being continued at intervals, we are anxious to render each number of these Memoirs distinct and interesting. Previous to entering on the history of other Maritime States of the ancient world, we again wish to call our reader's attention to the first voyage, of which we have any particulars remaining, the Periplus of Hanno, the Carthaginian navigator.

In addition to what was advanced in our first Memoir, relative to this most interesting voyage, we have to notice a learned work, which we recommend to the perusal of professional men, and our patrons in general.