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| Title | The Adventures of Capt. Greenland: Written in Imitation of All Those Wise, Learned, Witty and Humorous Authors, who ... Write in the Same Stile and Manner. .... Volume 4 of The Adventures of Capt. Greenland: Written in Imitation of All Those Wise, Learned, Witty and Humorous Authors, who ... Write in the Same Stile and Manner, W. Goodall |
| Author | W. Goodall |
| Publisher | R. Baldwin, 1752 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 25, 2007 |
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