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e of the same series, entitled Hakluyt's Divers Voyages, London, 1850, pp. 23-26. Verrazzano's narrative is taken from Hakluyt's Divers Voyages, same edition, pp. 55-71. Another translation, by J. G. Cogswell, may be found, with the original Italian narrative, in the Collections of the New York Historical Society, second series, vol. I. I.—First news of John and Sebastian Cabot. [from a letter written by Lorenzo Pasqualigo, from London, to his. Brothers in Venice, and dated Aug. 23, 1497.] This Venetian of ours, who went with a ship from Bristol in quest of new islands, is returned, and says that seven hundred leagues hence he discovered terra firma, Firm land, or continent. which is the territory of the Grand Cham. The name then given to the sovereign of Tartary, now called Khan. Shakspeare, in Much Ado about Nothing, written about 1600, says, Fetch you a hair off the great Cham's beard. He coasted for three hundred leagues, and landed. He saw no human being