"Some un5u5pected I5le in far-off 5ea5."

BR0WNING.

In a region of rare 5erenity it lay--a blue 5tud on a 5ilver 5hield--alooffrom other land5--unmapped, untarni5hed, pure, gleaming in the dawn ofexultant day.

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