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. About] 25 Years since, Professor Kalm, a learned Sw[ede, was] with us in Pensilvania. He contended that America was discovered by their Northern People long before the Time of Columbus, which I doubting, he drew up and gave me sometime after a Note of those Discoveries which I send you enclos’d. It is his own Hand writing, and his own English very intelligible for the time he had been among us. The Circumstances give the Account great Appearance of Authenticity. And if one may judge by the Description of the Win |
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inhabitable by Ice, it should seem that the almost perpetual northern Winter has gained ground to the Southward, and if so, perhaps more northern Countries might anciently have had Vines than can bear them in thes |
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been remarketl nearly 50 years aj^o. “ It should seem that the almost perpetual |
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2 About twenty-five years since, Professor Kalm, a learned Swede, was with us in andwriting, and his own English ; very intelligible for the time he had been among _ Thomas Carlyle does not say much on the subject, but it is to |
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