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Excerpt from Four Centuries After: Or How I Discovered Europe
At first I thought of announcing: I am a genius! Ihave disguised the fact as long as I can I now plead guilty, and trust to the clemency of the generous and forbearing world! But I am not quite sure, of my identity - my knowledge of zoology being meagre, I am not positive that I could identify a genius; so. I will defer such a bold announcement. Now that I have the floor, and the public's ear (which ear, by the way, I agree not to convert into a purse), I will further anticipate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
