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     gressiveness, that Prince Edward Island, since th 
     
    

    
     advent of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales to her shore 
     
    

    
     in 1860, to visit and ‘ lodge’ there. has passed through 
     
     her third degree, and stands now raised before the 
     
     world, a brother among the colonies of Old England, 
     
     free and accepted, as she industriously labors at the? 
     
     architecture of her own fortunes, and worthily sits in 
     
     a master’s place, governing with equity and justice, 
     
     and satisfying, with her good things, so that none need 
     
     go away dissatisfied. It is the want of knowledge 
     
     which stands in the way of the settlement of new 
     
     countries.* This will be seen if we suppose Cabot, 
     
     in 1497, navigating what are now called the Straits 
     
     of Northumberland, and Seuev Doublet only in 1663, 
     
     on the highest peak (perhaps T Hill) of Prince 
     
    
   
   
    
     * In a. ” cum privilegio" Geography and Atlas, anno 1666, by one 
     
     John Speed, we find the following information, (‘2) which if it does 
     
     not much enlighten us on the world’s history, will at least teach us 
     
     to feel sympathy for the world’s ancient inhabitants: 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ In Ptalamy’s time (about an .hundred and forty years after 
     
     Christ) we hear not of either Land or Sea known more than was 
     
     contained in Asia, Africa and Europe. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “And of that he never knew the East and North parts of Asia, 
     
     nor the South of Africa. no nor the most Northerly parts of Europe: 
     
     but placed the end of the world that way in ultima Thule, about 
     
     sixty degrees from the quuamr. And Southward the other way not 
     
     above 17 degrees, Praxso permoton‘o: which at this day is called 
     
     Mosambique Krrks. So the whole latitude of the world, then known 
     
     did not reach the fourth part of the Compass. In the Longitude 
     
     indeed they came not so far short; yct left they just half to the 
     
     search of their posterity. For they placed their first Meredian 
     
     in the Fortunate Islands, and ended their reckoning in Region 
     
     Sinarum of the Eastern Indies, and that is distant but 180 degrees 
     
     toward the 360, which is the compass of the whole. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ But God in these later times hath enlarged our possessions, that 
     
     his Gospel might be propagated, and hath discovered to us Inhabi— 
     
     tants almost in every corner of the earth. Our later Geographers 
     
     have set their mark beyond Plotomy’s 60 degrees Eastward. And 
     
     Westward to the utmost parts of America. So that there are already 
     
     known 340 of the earth’s Longitude. Toward the North Pole we 
     
     have gained more in proportion, as far as Nova Zembla, and the 
     
     Sea. is known to be navigable to the eighty-first degree: whether 
     
     the rest be land or not, it never yet appeared to any (as I hear of) 
     
     but an Oxford Frier by a Magiek Voyage. He reports ofa black 
     
     Rook just under the Pole, and an Isle of Pygmies: Other strange 
     
     miracles, to which (for my part) I shall give little credit till I have 
     
     better proof for it than the Devil’s word.”