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So Geographers, In Afric Maps, With Savage Pictures Fill Their Gaps, And O'er Unhabitable Downs Place Elephants For Want Of Towns.
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So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
-- Poetry, a Rhapsody
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