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coast of America and the eastern coast of Asia were 
by Spanish, oon, French and Russian navigators, till the year 1727, 
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__ It was the writer's intention to d trace out the history of the first explora- 
sna po the entire coast of the United S deta until th the last thread of the a 
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attempted, written in the yere 1584, by Richarde Hackluyt . . . at the requeste - 
Mr. Walter Raleigh before the comynge home of his two Barkes ee Virginia}” &¢. 
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