The Shaping of North America from Earliest Times to 1763 |
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... miles of , presumably , unbroken ocean . No ship of ancient times could possibly make that jour- ney . To be sure , Eratosthenes might be wrong . Another Greek ge- ographer , Poseidonius of Apamea , repeated the work of the ear- lier ...
... miles of , presumably , unbroken ocean . No ship of ancient times could possibly make that jour- ney . To be sure , Eratosthenes might be wrong . Another Greek ge- ographer , Poseidonius of Apamea , repeated the work of the ear- lier ...
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... miles along the shores of the continent , and in the next decade , eight hundred miles more were inched out . Then a milestone of sorts was reached . All along that 1800 miles of coast , the Portuguese had moved past relatively barren ...
... miles along the shores of the continent , and in the next decade , eight hundred miles more were inched out . Then a milestone of sorts was reached . All along that 1800 miles of coast , the Portuguese had moved past relatively barren ...
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... miles . It had been avoided while Spain was still strong , but Spain was growing weaker . On March 24 , 1663 , even while New Netherland remained to be conquered , Charles II had granted this stretch to eight of his loyal courtiers ...
... miles . It had been avoided while Spain was still strong , but Spain was growing weaker . On March 24 , 1663 , even while New Netherland remained to be conquered , Charles II had granted this stretch to eight of his loyal courtiers ...
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