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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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stance ofabout seven or eight leagues.18 We approached it under the side of agreat mountain that seemed almost to reach the skies, in the middle of whichrose a peak higher than all the rest of the mountains near it, and fromwhich many streams came out and diverged into different channels, espe-cially towards that part to which we were proceeding. At about threeleagues distance from it, we could see an immense fall of water that ap-peared to us of the breadth of an ox, and came rolling down from such a The island to which Columbus gave the name of Marigalante, the real nameof the galleon Capitana, in which he and Dr. Chanca sailed. It has an estimatedarea of sixty square mies, and belongs to France. Dominica has no harbors, but there are several good roadsteads on its westernside. The island Marigalante, as already stated. Probably the beautiful anchorage at the north end of the western coast ofDominica, now called Prince Ruperts Bay. Known today as Guadeloupe, which belongs to France.
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