consideration to place before you, that first the Portuguese and
afterwards the Spaniards formerly made great endeavours with no small
loss, but at length succeeded through determination of mind. Hasten on
then to adorn the Sparta[Vir-ginia] you have discovered; hasten on that
ship more than Argonautic, of nearly a thousand tons burthen which you
have at last built and finished with truly regal expenditure, to join
with the rest of the fleet you have fitted out.'

From this extract one might perhaps reasonably infer that Hariot went
directly from the University in 1580 at the age of twenty into Raleigh's
service, or at latest in 1582 when Raleigh returned from Flanders. As
our translation of this important passage is rather a free one the old
geographer's words are here added, in his own peculiar Latin. Hakluyt in
his edition of Peter Martyr's Eight Decades, printed at Paris in 1587,
8°, writes of his young friend Hariot in his dedication to his older
friend Sir Walter Raleigh, as follows :-

Tibi igitur has meas vigilias condonatas & confecratas efle volui. Cui
enim potius, quàm tibi has noui Orbis Decades offerem, qui centum ferè
millium ducatoru impenfa, nouis tuis clafsibus regiones nouas, nouam iam
tertiò ducendo coloniam, notas ex ignotis, ex inaccefsis peruias,
nouifsimis hifce teporibus nobis exhibes ? Cuius omnes curse,
cogitationes, conatus, hue fpeflant, haec verfant, in his inhaerent. Cui
cum Illuftrifsimo illo herôe, Carolo Hovvardo, altcro Oceani maris
Neptuno, Edoardi Staffbrdij, noftri apud regem Chriftianifsimum oratoris
prudentifsimi fororio, eadem ftudia, eaedem voluntates, iidem ad res
magnas terra maríque aggrediendas funt & fuerunt ani-morum ftimuli. Cùm
vero artis nauigatoriæ peritia, præcipuum regni infularis ornamentum,
Mathematicarii fcientiaru adminiculis adhibitis, fuu apud nos fplendore
poffe cofequi facile per-fpiceres, Thomas Hariotum, iuuenem in illis