Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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llent water close by,67 but the surrounding ground was inundated,and consequently ill-calculated for a place of habitation.68 As we went on making observations of this river and the neighboringland, some of our people discovered the bodies of two dead men in the grassby the river bank, one with a rope around his neck and the other with an-other rope round his feet: this was on the first day of our landing there.69 On the parallel of i8°25 North latitude the island of Santo Domingo has anextreme length of 400 miles, and its extreme breadth may be taken to be as of 150miles on the meridian yi°2o West from Greenwich Observatory. MAs already explained, the old island of Turuqueira is Guadeloupe. This river was called by the natives Yaqui, and has now the name Rio de Oro. This plain remark shows how well fitted was Dr. Chanca, as a medical manand a sanitarian, to accompany that large number of explorers and colonizers, whichincluded many distinguished men. That day was November 28, 1493.
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