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“So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Poetry, a Rhapsody.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2516613ec5399d379e524454bf1015f659d35ca28a12a87e314d3da6d8197102
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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