File:Old Map of Cornwall c.1610.jpg

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English: John Speede wrote 'Touching the temperature, the air thereof is cleansed with bellows, by the billows that ever work off her environing seas, where though it cometh pure and subtle, and is made thereby very healthy, but withall so piercing and sharp, that it is apter to preserve than recover life'
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Source Atlas: The Theatre & Empire of Great Britain
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John Speed  (–1629)  wikidata:Q1245028 s:en:Author:John Speed
 
John Speed
Description British cartographer and historian
Date of birth/death circa 1552
date QS:P,+1552-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
29 July 1629
Location of birth/death Farndon London
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creator QS:P170,Q1245028

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