...s of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigato... ...e dead. Pythagoras in the sixth century, and Plato, Aristotle, and other great philosophers and geographers taught the sphericity of the earth, yet a ... .... Such was the doubtful distinction of a French pirate called, after the great Russian Czar, Peter the Great, who, originally a common sailor, acquire... ...him to put into Oonalaska, where he spent some time with the natives, and some Russians who were there for their government, developing the seal fishe... ... of ice that disputed his further passage northward. In the harbor was a small Russian village and garrison, and to this place the remains were taken ... ...h ships soon penetrated as far as Nova Zembla, and did a large trade along the Russian coast. FROBISHER'S STRANGE DISCOVERIES. While rapid progress wa... ...een determined by the land explorations of Behring while in the service of the Russian government, and endeavor to make a way from the west to the eas...