THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
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WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF ANCIENT AMERICA AND THE SPANISH CONQUEST
BY JOHN FISKE
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
Then I unbar the doors; my paths lead out The exodus of nations; I disperse Men to all shores that front the hoary main. I too have arts and sorceries; Illusion dwells forever with the wave. I make some coast alluring, some lone isle To distant men, who must go there or die. Emerson
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1897
Copyright, 1892, By JOHN FISKE. All rights reserved.
SIXTEENTH THOUSAND.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.
TO EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN, A SCHOLAR WHO INHERITS THE GIFT OF MIDAS, AND TURNS INTO GOLD WHATEVER SUBJECT HE TOUCHES, I DEDICATE THIS BOOK, WITH GRATITUDE FOR ALL THAT HE HAS TAUGHT ME