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The Westover Manuscripts: containing the History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; a Journey to the Land of Eden, A.D. 1733; and a Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and now first published

William Byrd · 1841 · Scanned text

102,291 words · about 7 h 10 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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Author
William Byrd
Language
English
Published
1841
Length
102,291 words · about 7 h 10 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Preface about 4 h 43 min
  3. Appendix about 2 h 26 min
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A THE WESTOVER MANUSCRIPTS: containing THE HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE BETWIXT VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA ; JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF EDEN, A. D. 1733 AND A PROGRESS TO THE MINES. WRITTEN FROM 1728 TO 1736, AND NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. BY WILLIAM BYRD. OF WESTOVER. PETERSBURG: PRINTED BY EDMUND AND JULIAN C. RUFF1N. 1841. Entered, according to act of congress, in the year 1841, by Edmund Rdpfin, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia. EDITOR'S

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