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Excerpt from Historical Souvenir and Book of the Pageants: Of the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of Quebec, the Ancient Capital of Canada
At the moment when Columbus returned from his mar vellons first voyage, Spain and France were about to go into upon their bitter contest for European supremacy. The New World had been discovered by an Italian navigator sailing from the port of Palos in a Spanish barque. But when once The us was once disclosed to the eyes of Europe, every nation with ships and sailors began to dream of lands lying beyond the sunset. If Spain enjoyed an advantage originally, no state could preserve a monopoly of westward exploration.
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