From: R
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:19 PM
To: Garry
Subject: Re: Northern latitudes
Gary:
The overwritten numbers are there , i went to London and saw the manuscript. Not that I can make any meaning or attach any signifigance , but I saw it with my own eyes.
Dear R,
You’re right, whatever the meaning or significance. However; Drake or Tello’s Bark(as Blundenville said) may have gone as farther than 48 deg. ,but the first hand accounts of Francis Fletcher said 48 twice and John Drake’s 2 depositions to the Inquisition in 1584 & 1587 both said 48 deg.. Only modern day Robert Greenhow, Librarian of Congress in 1840 and George Davidson in 1888 said Drake went only to 43 degrees. However; they were both geopolitically motivated because of the Oregon Territory Treaty of 1846. In 1840 Greenhow made the determination that Drake only went to 43 because he had been asked by the Senate Select Committee on the Oregon Territory (1838-185x) to determine the ownership. Davidson, the surveyor of the first US Geodesic Survey of the Pacific Coast starting in 1850 was not about to start an international situation with Great Britain who had previously claimed the Oregon Territory down to the California border. Hakluyt is useless, because he was also under the Queen’s “Pain of Death” for releasing the great voyage information which wasn’t edited by Walshingham, the Queen’s secretary.
Of course, Fletcher said they were at 38 and 38 deg. 30 min. You’ll need to read Oregon’s Stolen History for the reason why the two different readings within adjoining sentences in his narrative. I’ll give you some clues; Nicolas van Sype map of 1582 and Vizcaino's 1603 voyage.
Best wishes,
G
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:19 PM
To: Garry
Subject: Re: Northern latitudes
Gary:
The overwritten numbers are there , i went to London and saw the manuscript. Not that I can make any meaning or attach any signifigance , but I saw it with my own eyes.
Dear R,
You’re right, whatever the meaning or significance. However; Drake or Tello’s Bark(as Blundenville said) may have gone as farther than 48 deg. ,but the first hand accounts of Francis Fletcher said 48 twice and John Drake’s 2 depositions to the Inquisition in 1584 & 1587 both said 48 deg.. Only modern day Robert Greenhow, Librarian of Congress in 1840 and George Davidson in 1888 said Drake went only to 43 degrees. However; they were both geopolitically motivated because of the Oregon Territory Treaty of 1846. In 1840 Greenhow made the determination that Drake only went to 43 because he had been asked by the Senate Select Committee on the Oregon Territory (1838-185x) to determine the ownership. Davidson, the surveyor of the first US Geodesic Survey of the Pacific Coast starting in 1850 was not about to start an international situation with Great Britain who had previously claimed the Oregon Territory down to the California border. Hakluyt is useless, because he was also under the Queen’s “Pain of Death” for releasing the great voyage information which wasn’t edited by Walshingham, the Queen’s secretary.
Of course, Fletcher said they were at 38 and 38 deg. 30 min. You’ll need to read Oregon’s Stolen History for the reason why the two different readings within adjoining sentences in his narrative. I’ll give you some clues; Nicolas van Sype map of 1582 and Vizcaino's 1603 voyage.
Best wishes,
G
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