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THE
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF ANCIENT AMERICA
AND THE SPANISH CONQUEST

BY
JOHN FISKE

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I.

Then I unbar the doors; my paths lead out
The exodus of nations; I disperse
Men to all shores that front the hoary main.
I too have arts and sorceries;
Illusion dwells forever with the wave.
I make some coast alluring, some lone isle
To distant men, who must go there or die.
Emerson