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"Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
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"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
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"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
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"We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio."
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."
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"Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I."
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"Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable."
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"As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia."
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"In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada."
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"As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy."
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"Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing."
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