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BRAZIL, or BRASIL , a legendary island in the Atlantic
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island
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supply dye-woods kindred to those which the name properly denoted. The older memory survived also, and the Island of Brazil retained its place in mid-ocean, some hundred miles to the west of Ireland, both in the traditions of the forecastle and in charts. In J. Purdy's General Chart of the Atlantic
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Findlay , dated 1853, these names appear again. But in his 12th edition of Purdy's Memoir Descriptive and Explanatory of the N. Atlantic Ocean (1865), the existence of Brazil and some other legendary islands is briefly discussed and rejected. (See also ATLANTIS.)End of Article: BRAZIL, or BRASIL If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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