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Excerpt from Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and by-Gone Beliefs, Gathered in From Divers Authorities, Ancient and Medi val, of Varying Degrees of Reliability Cosmography - The interest and beauty of Old title pages - Elephants in lieu of towns in the old maps - A tale of a tub - Herbert's Some Yeates Travels into Africa and Asia the Great - The travels of Marco Polo - Geo graphy of Peter Heylyn - Raleigh's, Hakluyt's, Purchas', Struys', Acosta's books of travels - Medical books Potter's Booke of Physicke - Cogan's Haven of Health - Indifference to animal suffering - Bestiare Divin of Guillaume - The Bestiary of Philip de Thaun -the Armories of Guillim, Legh, and Bossewell. 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.

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