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Excerpt from American Biography, or an Historical Account of Those Persons Who Have Been Distinguished in America, as Adventurers, Statesmen, Philosophers, Divines, Warriors, Authors, and Other Remarkable Characters, Vol. 1: Comprehending a Recital of the Events Connected With Their Lives and Actions
The firil navigators, of whom we have any account, were the Phenicians, who were fcattered along the coa¿s of the Mediterranean and of the Red Sea. As early as the days of Mofes,t they had extended their navigation beyond the pillars of Hercules, on the wei'tern coafl of Africa, toward the fouth and as far northward as the i¿and of Britain, whence they imported tin and lead, which according to the univerfal tefiimony of the ancients, were not then found in any other country.
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