Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 151
brain was teeming with the most romantic enterprises.He had conceived the idea that there was yet a thirdworld to be discovered, and he hoped to be the first toreach its shores, and thus to secure a renown equal tothat of Columbus. While cogitating these things, and considering whichway he should… … Ponce de Leons Search 121 fondest dreams of the poets. They assured him that,far to the north, there existed a land abounding ingold and in all manner of delights; but, above all,possessing a river of such wonderful virtue, that who-ever bathed in it would be restored to youth! Theyadded, that in…
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