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Journal of Charles LeRaye
Title page of A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, And LouisianaIn 1812 a Boston printer published an anonymously authored book titled A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana. Appended to this book was a section described as “An Interesting Journal of…
Madagascar or Robert Drurys Journal
Type: Undetermined. Probably not a hoax. Summary: There has been continuing debate about whether a popular tale describing survival in eighteenth-century Madagascar was truth or fiction. Ask your average eighteenth-century Englishman about the faraway land of Madagascar, and all you’d get was a blank stare. For the English, Madagascar was…
Patagonian Giants
Type: Rumor. Summary: A rumor that circulated in England in the eighteenth century suggested that Commodore Byron had discovered a race of giants in South America. “A sailor giving a Patagonian woman a piece of bread for her baby.”—Detail from the frontispiece to A Voyage round the World, in his…
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Journal of Charles LeRaye
Title page of A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, And LouisianaIn 1812 a Boston printer published an anonymously authored book titled A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana. Appended to this book was a section described as “An Interesting Journal of…
Madagascar or Robert Drurys Journal
Type: Undetermined. Probably not a hoax. Summary: There has been continuing debate about whether a popular tale describing survival in eighteenth-century Madagascar was truth or fiction. Ask your average eighteenth-century Englishman about the faraway land of Madagascar, and all you’d get was a blank stare. For the English, Madagascar was…
Patagonian Giants
Type: Rumor. Summary: A rumor that circulated in England in the eighteenth century suggested that Commodore Byron had discovered a race of giants in South America. “A sailor giving a Patagonian woman a piece of bread for her baby.”—Detail from the frontispiece to A Voyage round the World, in his…
