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Valle, from his possessions chosen here. To this oes | 
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roves almost to a certainty that the indefinite coast line of the 
United States was still imaginary, if not Asiatic. Indeed, the 
old wood-cut maps of 1513 and 1522 of the German geo: 
enterprises, as it showed not only the practicability, but the — 
stewed of ers, by artificial means a direct rou ; 
ent in a low latitude ‘and good climate. Cortes was clear- — 
and his posterity, and confirmed to him in 1529 by the Em 
He was ennobled in 1529, taking his title, 7 i ; 
called the Cortes Estates, or the Marquisanas. 
