American Historical Magazine, Volume 6University Press, 1901 - Local history |
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Page 19 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
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Page 20 - Creek, which lies within or about the degrees of thirty-six and thirty minutes northern latitude, and so west in a direct line as far as the south ssas, and south and westward as far as the degrees of twenty-nine, inclusive, or northern latitude, and so west in a direct line as far as the south seas...