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| Title | Trip to the far west [of England.]. |
| Author | Baker Peter Smith |
| Publisher | Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1840 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Oct 3, 2006 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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