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Excerpt from Cabo De Baxos, or the Place of Cape Cod in the Old Cartology: With Notes on the Neighboring Coasts
At some distant periwl the rape was connected with the neighboring isles, though a portion of the themselves have now disappeared. The great shallows tell of islztmk that once ms 3 stlmve the waves. Lit the y 'ttl' 1701 the Sleep Mary ztm-herml under the lee of an island of which no vestige new remainsfi at the lwginning uf the sixteenth century, when the French and Spanish navigators came npen the coast, it. Presented substantially the same aspect as te-tlay. Then. As now, the mark cd feature of the cozut was fimml in the great ritl's which tttaitttainecl a deafening roar, even at a distance heittg ominous in the matritter's ear. The ?oor of the sea was literally ploughed up hy the roaring tide. The classic age. However. Had passed away. Sun] the sailors, instead of referring to Seyl l: t autl (jharyhdis, applied other but not less emphatic name, which, whatp ever may have been the language. Always signified the same thittg - Tttz Suons; while the cape mu known as Tm: can: 09 the Stunts. Ver razatno employed the term sirtis, though others used such words as arrecifes, farahmes, malleharre, hatttriet' and Bums.
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