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| Title | Report on Light-house Construction and Illumination |
| Author | F. W. Ashpitel |
| Publisher | Superintendent, Government Press, 1895 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Apr 12, 2011 |
| Length | 141 pages |
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