The Giant-Book of the Earth-rind.--The Sea of Fire.--Formation of a solid Earth-crust by cooling.--The Primitive Waters.--First awakening of Life in the Bosom of the Ocean.--The Reign of the Saurians.--The future Ocean. 433
Maritime Discoveries of the Phœnicians.--Expedition of Hanno. --Circumnavigation of Africa under the Pharaoh Necho.--Colæus of Samos.--Pytheas of Massilia.--Expedition of Nearchus. --Circumnavigation of Hindostan under the Ptolemies.--Voyages of Discovery of the Romans.--Consequences of the Fall of the Roman Empire.--Amalfi.--Pisa.--Venice.--Genoa.--Resumption of Maritime Intercourse between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.--Discovery of the Mariner's Compass.--Marco Polo 443
Prince Henry of Portugal.--Discovery of Porto Santo and Madeira. --Doubling of Cape Bojador.--Discovery of the Cape Verde Islands. --Bartholomew Diaz.--Vasco de Gama.--Columbus.--His Predecessors. --Discovery of Greenland by Günnbjorn.--Bjorne Herjulfson.--Leif. --John Vaz Cortereal.--John and Sebastian Cabot.--Retrospective View of the Beginnings of English Navigation.--Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci.--Vincent Yañez Pinson.--Cortez.--Verazzani.--Cartier. --The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean 454
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa.--His Discovery of the Pacific, and subsequent Fate.--Ferdinand Magellan.--Sebastian el Cano, the first Circumnavigator of the Globe.--Discoveries of Pizarro and Cortez. --Urdaneta.--Juan Fernandez.--Mendoza.--Drake.--Discoveries of the Portuguese and Dutch in the Western Pacific.--Attempts of the Dutch and English to discover North-East and North-West Passages to India. --Sir Hugh Willoughby and Chancellor.--Frobisher.--Davis.--Barentz. --His Wintering in Nova Zembla.--Quiros.--Torres.--Schouten.--Le Maire.--Abel Tasman.--Hudson.--Baffin.--Dampier.--Anson.--Byron. --Wallis and Carteret.--Bougainville 464
What had Cook's Predecessors left him to discover?--His first Voyage. --Discovery of the Society Islands, and of the East Coast of New Holland.--His second Voyage.--Discovery of the Hervey Group. --Researches in the South Sea.--The New Hebrides.--Discovery of New Caledonia and of South Georgia.--His third Voyage.--The Sandwich Islands.--New Albion.--West Georgia.--Cook's Murder.--Vancouver. --La Peyrouse 485