IRVING WASHINGTON Autograph Manuscript unsigned with few hol

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FRAGMENT FROM "CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS" IRVING, WASHINGTON. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, with few holograph corrections, fragment in 24 lines from the draft of Chapter XXIX of his The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, numbered page 317, likely removed from the 1895 Manuscript Edition of his collected works. 1 page, 8vo; mounted at corners to a larger sheet, minor loss at lower right corner, short closed tear at upper right corner. (SFC) Np, circa 1829

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"He was astonished at the vast body of fresh water continually flowing into the Gulf of Paria so as apparently to sweeten the whole surrounding sea, and at the constant current which set through it, which he supposed to be produced by some great river. . . ."