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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:44:40 -0400 (EDT)
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On 08/14/00 09:44:43 you wrote:
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>Subject: Did Francis Drake discover B.C.?
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>http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20000805/362113.html
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>Mike Flannigan
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     The article on Drake was interesting and I wondered if Samuel Eliot Morison would cringe at
Sam Bawlf's assertion that Drake explored Canada's West Coast. However I reread Morison's
Northern Voyages A.D. 500 - 1600 and on  p. 497 the following appears;  ......."At the Pacific
end the Spanish produced a mythical strait of Anian through North America to the Atlantic; Drake
searched for it on his circumnavigation."   I would like to read more !



Regards
Bob Cerra





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