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Excerpt from Columbus and Desoto Day after day Columbus and the prior pored over the convent books and maps, discussing whether the earth was a globe or merely a at expanse; whether by sailing around it Asia would be reached; or whether somewhere, far out at sea, might there be a great unknown continent as large, perhaps, as the one already known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.