 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...also written the name of our General]." This country, continues the narrator, is great and fair, " and there is no part of the earth here to be taken up, wherein there is not some likelihood of gold and silver." " A special likelihood " truly, if we may credit one half of what... | |
 | Gazetteers - 1856 - 996 pages
...describing this region in liia account of that expedition, published in 1589, saya: "There is no port of earth here to be taken up wherein there is not a reasonable quantity of gold and silver." In the beginning of last century. Captain Shelkucke found gold in the sands of the river... | |
 | Edmund Randolph - California - 1860 - 90 pages
...have some affinitie with our country in name, which "sometime was so called." " There is no part of earth here to be taken up, wherein there is "not a reasonable quantitie of gold or silver." Every one will at once recognize the burrowing squirrel that still survives... | |
 | Franklin Tuthill - History - 1866 - 688 pages
...the California coast, in 1579, occurs the following statement concerning its mineral wealth: — " There is no part of the earth here to be taken up wherein there is not a reasonable quantity of gold and silver." There is little reason to believe that this assertion was based upon any knowledge of... | |
 | John Ross Browne, James Wickes Taylor - Gold mines and mining - 1867 - 374 pages
...we now say with truth, as Hakluyt said seriously, "There is no part of the earth here to be bike n up wherein there is not a reasonable quantity of gold or silver." This statement, taken literally, is untrue, and it was probably made without any foundation, merely for... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, George Davidson - Hydrography - 1869 - 364 pages
...into a fair and good bay, with a good wind to enter the same." Curiously enough, we find the statement that " there is no part of the earth here to be taken up wherein there is not some probable show of gold and silver." In this harbor he remained over a month "trimming'' his ships... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - British Columbia - 1872 - 794 pages
...Sir Francis Drake's voyage to California in the summer of 1579. In this account a paragraph reads: "There is no part of the earth here to be taken up...not a reasonable quantity of gold or silver." This statement of Hukluyt is a pure fiction, like the account of the Spanish novelist of 1510, and was only... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - California - 1875 - 830 pages
...Sir Francis Drake's voyage to California in the summer of 1579. In this account a paragraph reads : " There is no part of the earth here to be taken up...not a reasonable quantity of gold or silver." This statement of Hukluyt is a pure fiction, like the account of the Spanish novelist of 1510, and was only... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - Canada - 1879 - 964 pages
...who spent five weeks in June and July, 1579, along the coast) says, "There is no part of the earth to be taken up wherein there is not a reasonable quantity of gold and silver." Although this statement was highly overdrawn, yet it probably contained a basis of truth... | |
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There is no part of the earth here to be taken up, wherein there is not a reasonable quantitie of gold or silver. 
