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BRAZIL, or BRASIL

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 438 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRAZIL, or BRASIL , a legendary See also:island in the See also:Atlantic Ocean. The name connects itself with the red dye-See also:woods so called in the See also:middle ages, possibly also applied to other See also:vegetable dyes, and so descending from the Insulae Purpurariae of See also:Pliny. It first appears as the I. de Brazi in the Venetian See also:map of See also:Andrea Bianco (1436), where it is found attached to one of the larger islands of the See also:Azores. When this See also:group became better known and was colonized, the island in question was renamed See also:Terceira. It is probable that the See also:familiar existence of " Brazil " as a See also:geographical name led to its bestowal upon the vast region of See also:South See also:America, which was found to See also:supply dye-woods kindred to those which the name properly denoted. The older memory survived also, and the Island of Brazil retained its See also:place in See also:mid-ocean, some See also:hundred See also:miles to the See also:west of See also:Ireland, both in the traditions of the forecastle and in charts. In J. Purdy's See also:General See also:Chart of the Atlantic, " corrected to 1830," the " Brazil See also:Rock (high) " is marked with no indication of doubt, in 51° 10' N. and 150 50' W. In a chart of currents by A.G.See also:Findlay, dated 1853, these names appear again. But in his 12th edition of Purdy's Memoir Descriptive and Explanatory of the N. Atlantic Ocean (1865), the existence of Brazil and some other legendary islands is briefly discussed and rejected.

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