Excerpt from American Biography, Vol. 1: Or, an Historical Account of Those Persons Who Have Been Distinguished in America, as Adventurers, Statesmen, Philosophers, Divines, Warriors, Authors, and Other Remarkable Characters The firll navigators, of whom we have any account, were the Phenicians, who were fcattered along the coafis of the Mediterranean and of the Red Sea. As early as the days of Mofes, they had extended their navigation beyond the pillars of Hercules, on the weitern coali of Africa, toward the fouth and as far northward as the ifland of Britain, whence they imported tin and lead, * which according to the univerfal tefiimony of the ancients, were not then foimd in any other country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.