South America,The Columbia Encyclopedia, ed. 6a (Novi Eboraci: Columbia University Press, 2001–2006): "fourth largest continent . . . , the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere."
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Christianus Xaverius Wabst, De hydrargyro tentamen physico-chemico-medicum (Vindobonae: 1754), p. 18.
Philippus Ferrarius et Michael Baudrand, Lexicon geographicum (Patavii: 1675), vol. 2, p. 34.