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History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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FANCIFUL MAP-MAKING. 7<br />

<strong>Utah</strong> and Idaho combined, and discharging its waters<br />

by two great rivers into the Pacific. This species <strong>of</strong><br />

geography was doubtless entirely satisfactory to the<br />

wise men <strong>of</strong> this world until they came to know better<br />

about it. If the reader will look over the chap-<br />

ters on the Northern Mystery in my <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> tlie<br />

Map by John Harris, 1705.<br />

Northwest Coast he may learn further <strong>of</strong> absurdities<br />

in map-making.<br />

A more extended and pronounced exploration was<br />

that <strong>of</strong> two Franciscan friars, one the visitador comi-

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