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  • The discumbered Atlas of the state.

    -William Cowper
      Poems,'Retirement'.

  • On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

    - Dervla Murphy
      Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

  • Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set the cocks a-crow.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'Under Ben Bulben', stanza1. Collected in Last Poems (1939).

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