"It maybe said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions."
— Ownership

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Gage, New Survey of the West Indies, Epistle Dedicatory (London, 1648). Alexander the Great claimed the same for his dominions. See Williams—Life—Chapter XIII. Howell—Familiar Letters claimed for Philip II. Also in Fuller—Life of Drake; in The Holy State, and in Camden—Summary of Career of Philip, II. Annals. Ed. Hearne, p. 778. Claimed for Portugal by Camoens—Luciad. I. 8. Claimed for Rome by Claudian, XXIV. 138. Minutius Felix—Octavius, VI. 3. Ovid—Fasti, II. 136. Rutilius. I. 53. Tibul