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This would point to a Portugese discovery of Australia immediately preceding the Dutch one. In Cornelius Wytfliet's "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum," Louvain, 1598, the following passage is to be found:
What truth there may be in Roger of Hovenden's statement concerning his motives cannot be said; "Hic ad augmentum et famam sui nominis emendicata carmina et rhythmos adulatorios comparabat et de regno Francorum cantores et joculatores muneribus allexerat ut de illo canerent in plateis, et jam dicebatur ubique, quod non erat talis in orbe."
There was silence, the awful hiss of the man's breathing was heard from under the heap of stones. The serjeant-at-law completed his quotation. "Adde augmentum abstinentiæ ciborum diminutione. Consuetudo brittanica, art. 504." The two men, the sheriff and the serjeant, alternated. Nothing could be more dreary than their imperturbable monotony.
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