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| Title | Morocco and the Moors: Being an Account of Travels, with a General Description of the Country and Its People |
| Author | Arthur Leared |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jun 26, 2006 |
| Length | 370 pages |
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