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Excerpt from Universal History, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 of 25: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1802 The language differs only provmci y fro: that of S ain; and both are derived from tl Latin. He Portuguese is spoken along the coa of Africa and Asia as far as China, but wit an intermixture of many diflerent language Though there are two universities in Portuga those of Coimbra and Evora, learning is at very low ebb: yet the defect lies not in tl genius of the people, but in their education. Tl ancestors of the present Portuguese, about tl middle of the sixteenth century, were possessed more mathematical knowledge than all the re of the world; and Camoens, who was both poet and a voyager, would do honour to a: country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.