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A Voyage from Blackwall to Southampton in 1582
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2010
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English sailors came more than half a century late into the world of transatlantic voyages and new discoveries. Nor should this surprise us when we remember the exasperating delays they had to expect when getting out of our long river estuaries into the narrow seas, and out of the narrow seas into the Atlantic Ocean. Once there they still had to encounter prevailing head-winds, where a Columbus had only to launch himself on the steady trade winds to discover America.
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