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with a pen by Columbus, and inclosed in his letter[1] to Don Gabriel Sanchez, evidently belongs. The following delineation from a picture of the fifteenth century, in S. Giovanni e Paolo at Venice, fairly represents the ordinary merchant vessel which might, at the time, have been lying in the harbour of Palos; and her form, not unlike that of a modern Dutch galliot, is well adapted to encounter in safety the large rolling waves of the Atlantic.
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- ↑ The letter is entitled "De Insulis inventis. Epistola Cristoferi Colom . . . ad Magnificum dñm Raphaelem Sanxis . . . 3 Kal. Maii, 1493 (Grenville Collect. No. 6663).