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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: to the south. The Venetian thought it might be a continent
wholly unknown alike to the ancients and the moderns.
``Known,'' answered the Genoese, ``in the far, far past!
But unknown, I grant, for so long that it has become again
new. All a New World.''
``How should we map it?'' said the other. ``Faith of
God! I should like to see the maps a hundred years
from now!''
He had something to say of Sebastian Cabot who was
finding northward for King Henry of England. But laying
a fine small hand upon the Admiral's mighty one, he called
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