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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: occurred to me. Unquestionably it is a corruption of Great
Britain, a name formerly given to the large island
comprising England, Scotland and Wales. Subsequently we
heard it pronounced Grabrittin and Grubritten.
I then asked the fellow if he could direct us to Ryde or
Newport; but again he shook his head, and said that he never
had heard of such countries. And when I asked him if there
were any cities in this country he did not know what I
meant, never having heard the word cities.
I explained my meaning as best I could by stating that by
city I referred to a place where many people lived together
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