Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... We may rightly call a New World... A continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals other than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

Amerigo Vespucci

On the discovery of America.

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Original Citation

Vespucci, Amerigo. Letter to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici. c. Mar. 1503.

Current Citation

Vespucci, Amerigo. "From Mundus Novus (Letter on His Third Voyage to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici, 1503)." Early American Writing, edited by Giles Gunn. Penguin Classics, 1994.