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The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
(2000)  Page(s) 108.  
 
Camelot, the capital of King Arthur's kingdom of Logres, in southern England... The castle and city stand on Camelot River... The main hall in the castle was built by the enchanter Merlin... The main hall houses the famous round table, at which 150 knights can sit... It is said that the table symbolizes the roundness of the world. It is also the symbol of the Fellowship of the Round Table, composed of the most noble and virtuous knights in the land... According to the code of Camelot, a knight may not ignore the slightest incident which may lead him to adventure...
 
(2000)  Page(s) 89-90.  
 
Brigadoon, a village in the Scottish Highlands, found on no National Survey map... two miracles occurred in Brigadoon... The first on May 22, 1753. On that day, the local parson, Mr. Forsythe, horrified by the presence of witches in the vicinity, prayed that the village might be removed from temptation by falling asleep, to awaken on only one day every hundred years... [The second miracle occurred on] May 24, 1953, two American tourists, lost in the Highlands, came upon the village on its one day of reawakening in the twentieth century...
(2000)  Page(s) 654-656.  
 
Treasure Island, some ten miles long and five miles wide, off the coast of Mexico... The island was first charted in 1754 by Captain Flint, who chose it as the burial place for his famous treasure... a group of men led by Squire Trelawney set off to try to find Flint's treasure, sailing in the Hispaniola... Almost immediately after the Hispaniola's arrival at the Island a mutiny broke out...
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