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Francis A. Durivage · 1845 · Scanned text
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1845, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/03001223); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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