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Description Gerardus Mercator
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Source first published in the French edition of Atlas in 1619, scan from Gerardus Mercator, Jodocus Hondius & Jan Janssonius: Atlas or a geographicke description of the world. english edition, first published 1636, reprint of 1968
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