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the known toorld. Now, to the Koman of his day, Spain was the * jumping-off
place,' and from it the world lay not to the West but to the East ; so Juvenal —
- Omnibus in terris quae sunt a Gadibus usque
Auroram et Gangen.'
There is no more sense in reading the Atlantic Ocean into these passages than there would be in supposing that in Dr. Johnson's
- Let observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind, from China to Peru,'
the sage meant to confine his vision to the Pacific."
