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 Spain without attempting to dip their own hands in the golden fountain. France had no naval kill or power; Portugal was extending her dominions in the Eat over regions formed in the gaiety of Nature; the Haneatic league, being planned only for the ecurity of traffick, had no tendency to dicovery or invaion; and the commercial tates of Italy growing rich by trading between Aia and Europe, and not lying upon the ocean, did not deire to eek by great hazards, at a ditance, what was almot at home to be found with afety.

Englih alone were animated by the ucces of the Spanih navigators, to try if any thing was left that might reward adventure, or incite appropriation. They ent Cabot into the North, but in the North there was no gold or ilver to be found. The bet regions were pre-occupied, yet they till continued their hopes and their labours. They were the econd nation that dared