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Thread #104257 Message #2132632
Posted By: Jack Campin
24-Aug-07 - 07:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Little Known Facts in Geography (?)
Subject: RE: BS: Little Known Facts in Geography (?)

kendall, google "seawater density".

Brazil got its name from a mythical Atlantic island "Hy-Brasil". Samuel Eliot Morison's "The European Discovery of America" gives the details.