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The following explanation was given regarding the southern continent: 'According to many, reliable sources, this southern land, which has not yet been explored, is 350 miles away from the Cape of Good Hope' ('Terra hec Australis […]'). The representation of America is explained as follows: 'Where our depiction of America differs from that of other cosmographers and insofar as we separate this continent from Asia, this is not without reason an indisputable fact for us' ('Quod in describendo America [...]').
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