Chapter XIII: Part II: In the Mountains

“And daily how through hardy enterprise
Many great regions are discoverèd,
Which to late age were never mentionèd,
Who ever heard of th’ Indian Peru?
Or who in venturous vessels measurèd
The Amazon huge river, now found true?

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Why then should witless man so much misween
That nothing is, but that which he hath seen?”

SPENSER