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Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 87

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t little butdiscredit to the cause in which it was invoked. The geographical doctrines which antiquity bequeathed to the MiddleAges were briefly these : that the earth was a sphere with a circumferenceof 252,000 or 180,000 stadia; that only the temperate zones were inhabita-ble, and the northern… … fn nip^ft xof cc kt o~ n uu THE RECTANGULAR EARTH* of the northern, it was unknown whether the intervention of another con-tinent, or only the shoals and unknown horrors of the ocean, prevented awestward passage from Europe to Asia. The legatee preserved, but didnot improve his inheritance. It has…

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