The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Vincent Le Blanc (1554 - ca. 1640)

French traveler in Asia, Africa and America (including Canada), famous for his published Voyages. Other Links: penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/leblanc1.html - Relevant locations: Visited Canada, North America
Visited Africa
Visited Asia
 References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

3. Stones of strange and illegible Inscriptions, found about the great ruines which Vincent le Blanc describeth about Cephala in Africa, where he opinion'd that the Hebrews raised some Buildings of old, and that Solomon brought from thereabout a good part of his Gold.