Excerpt from The Discovery of North America by John Cabot: The Alleged Date and Landfall Also the Ships Name, the "Matthew," a Forgery of Chatterton? Soncino to the Duke of Milan, August 24 and December 18, 1497. Pasqualigo states that John Cabot coasted three hundred leagues [of the newly discovered This statement is corroborated by Soncino, who saw the description of the country discovered by Cabot marked in a chart and on a solid globe which the latter had made.2 These three hundred leagues would have amounted to six hundred, as Cabot had to retrace his course when sailing homeward. Now John Cabot was already in London on August 10, 1497, which implies that he had reached Bristol about five days earlier. If we accept the alleged date of June 24 as that of his landfall in America, it leaves only forty-two days between his arrival within sight of the New World and his return to England? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.