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...beginning. Columbus noted that "there came so fair and sweet a smell of flowers or trees from the land, that it was the sweetest thing in the world." Almost a century later, Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists, aboard ship off the southeast coast, inhaled "so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding in all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As the Voyagers Saw It | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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