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 Este.Estramaçon (French). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Estot’iland.
 
An imaginary tract of land near the Arctic Circle in North America, said to have been discovered by John Scalvë, a Pole.   1
       
“The snow
       
From cold Estotiland.”
       
Milton: Paradise Lost, x. 685.
 


 Este.Estramaçon (French). 

 
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