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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ors, for which calling he, at an early age,evinced a preference. He received a com-mon school education, and afterwards wentto the University of Pavia, where he studiedgeometry, astronomy, geography and navi-gation. He stayed at Pavia but a short time,only long enough to gain a decided relish formathematical studies. At the early age of fourteen he went ona voyage with a relative, and followed thecalling of a sailor until he had completed histhirtieth year. During this period he hadmarried, and by this marriage he had becomepossessed of the papers of the former hus-band of his wife, who had been a distinguishedPortuguese navigator. He had learned butlittle at school, but he had been a close stu-dent all his life, and had stored his mindwith a valuable fund of information. Thishabit of study he never abandoned, and hisextensive knowledge, added to his years ofpractical experience, made him one of themost learned navigators of his day. In 1470,bengr then about thirty years old, Columbus
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