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A01749 A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583.; Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577. 1576 (1576) STC 11881; ESTC S105732 27,387 91

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