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<Author>Thoreau, Henry David</Author>
<Title>Cape Cod</Title>
<Edition>[Prose Works. Selections.] Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition>
<Date>1855-1857</Date>
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<l><i>Principium</i> erit mirari omnia, etiam tritissima, </l>
<l><i>Medium</i> est calamo committere visa et utilia, </l>
<l><i>Finis</i> erit naturam adcuratius adlineare, </l>
<l>quam alius [si possumus]. </l>
<p> <i>Linnaeus de Peregrinatione.</i>
<p> I <i>The Shipwreck</i>
<p>Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean,
which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of
which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more
than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod in October, 1849,
another the succeeding June, and another to Truro in July, 1855; the
first and last time with a singl . . .
