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... mountains form the back - ground of the picture ; but , should you ever visit Ireland , I hope you will afford me an opportunity of pointing out those beauties to you on the spot . Rest assured you have no friend in the Island of Saints ...
... mountains form the back - ground of the picture ; but , should you ever visit Ireland , I hope you will afford me an opportunity of pointing out those beauties to you on the spot . Rest assured you have no friend in the Island of Saints ...
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... mountain , which he lays down almost systematically . I shall add a paragraph or two at the end of chap . IV . MR . J. C. WALKER TO MR . PINKERTON . Jan. 19th , 1799 . I fear you will think I have given my senti- ments on your Rimes ...
... mountain , which he lays down almost systematically . I shall add a paragraph or two at the end of chap . IV . MR . J. C. WALKER TO MR . PINKERTON . Jan. 19th , 1799 . I fear you will think I have given my senti- ments on your Rimes ...
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... . some parts of the mountains the snow was lying on the 13th of this month ; but , as we have had a deluge of rain since , I suppose it will now have In disappeared . I am already satiated with the country , MR . PINKERTON . 77.
... . some parts of the mountains the snow was lying on the 13th of this month ; but , as we have had a deluge of rain since , I suppose it will now have In disappeared . I am already satiated with the country , MR . PINKERTON . 77.
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... mountains were splendidly adorned with all the powers of light and shadow ; and , notwithstand- ing your Anti - Gilpin theory , with all their barren- ness , as much superior to the corn - fields and straight canals of the south , as ...
... mountains were splendidly adorned with all the powers of light and shadow ; and , notwithstand- ing your Anti - Gilpin theory , with all their barren- ness , as much superior to the corn - fields and straight canals of the south , as ...
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... mountains , ) should have been al- most totally omitted ; while it ought to have been branched into about twenty questions . The new earth of Strontian is now talked of all over Eu- rope ; yet all we know of Strontian from his book is ...
... mountains , ) should have been al- most totally omitted ; while it ought to have been branched into about twenty questions . The new earth of Strontian is now talked of all over Eu- rope ; yet all we know of Strontian from his book is ...
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