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A90519 An historical & geographical description of the great country & river of the Amazones in America. Drawn out of divers authors, and reduced into a better forme; with a mapp of the river, and of its provinces, being that place which Sr Walter Rawleigh intended to conquer and plant, when he made his voyage to Guiana. / Written in French by the Count of Pagan, and dedicated to Cardinall Mazarine, in order to a conquest by the Cardinals motion to be undertaken. And now translated into English by William Hamilton, and humbly offered to his Majesty, as worthy his consideration. Pagan, Blaise François de, comte de Merveilles, 1604-1665.; Hamilton, William, gent. 1660 (1660) Wing P162; Thomason E1805_2; ESTC R209931 71,773 189

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