_Huet's Navigations of Solomon._--Can you or any of your readers inform
me if the treatise referred to in the accompanying extract was ever
published? and, if so, what was the result as to the assertions there
made?
_The History of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients. Written in
French by Monsieur Huet, Bishop of Avranches. Made English from the
Paris Edition. London: Printed for B. Lintot, between the Temple Gates,
in Fleet Street, and Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple Bar._ 1717.
"2dly. It is here we must lay down the most important remark, in
point of commerce; and I shall undeniably establish the truth of
it in a treatise which I have begun concerning the navigations
of Solomon, that the Cape of Good Hope was known, often
frequented, and doubled in Solomon's time, and so it was
likewise for many years after; and that the Portuguese, to whom
the glory of this discovery has been attributed, were not the
first that found out this place, but mere secondary
discoverers."--P. 20.