The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 145
t. I bought somephotographs of it at a shop close by, and am glad to have them. Opposite to the monument is the Palace of Columbus, which hasan inscription to the effect that Christopher Columbus, the Genoese,discovered America. There was no need of telling us that, as we had 124 THE BOY TRAVELLERS… … MONUMENT TO COLUMBUS, GENOA. There is a good deal of doubt as to whether he was born at Genoa,or somewhere else. They showed the house which they claim was hisbirthplace, and indicated the room where he first saw the light; butthis is disputed by no fewer than seven other cities. This number, WHERE…
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