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... travelled 50,000 miles , and gives us an account in 343 pages . This results from the fact that I give only what I saw and heard myself , and copied from no guide books , which , if I had done , would considerably have swelled this ...
... travelled 50,000 miles , and gives us an account in 343 pages . This results from the fact that I give only what I saw and heard myself , and copied from no guide books , which , if I had done , would considerably have swelled this ...
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... travelling over the rim of its eyelids as in the Fell line , which I had told an Engineer at the bottom I would not traverse again for a thousand pounds . I distinctly saw a decayed bit of a sleeper pressed out by the weight of the ...
... travelling over the rim of its eyelids as in the Fell line , which I had told an Engineer at the bottom I would not traverse again for a thousand pounds . I distinctly saw a decayed bit of a sleeper pressed out by the weight of the ...
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... travelling servant , and who turned out an honest and respectable man . He failed in his judgment in this case , as he secured us a bad pair of horses , who in the heavy parts of the road ex- pressed their unwillingness to again visit ...
... travelling servant , and who turned out an honest and respectable man . He failed in his judgment in this case , as he secured us a bad pair of horses , who in the heavy parts of the road ex- pressed their unwillingness to again visit ...
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... travelling through the sea was luckily limited to about 200 yards , and I was glad to be safely deposited on dry land . Lady Hobart gallantly set the example of " taking the chair . " We ascended a long flight of steps , and at length ...
... travelling through the sea was luckily limited to about 200 yards , and I was glad to be safely deposited on dry land . Lady Hobart gallantly set the example of " taking the chair . " We ascended a long flight of steps , and at length ...
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... travelling , I was disposed to lie in bed . But at six o'clock there broke out in front a terrible " parade , " which doubtless some day will lead to slaughter , but at these presents only effectually murdered sleep . I got up and in a ...
... travelling , I was disposed to lie in bed . But at six o'clock there broke out in front a terrible " parade , " which doubtless some day will lead to slaughter , but at these presents only effectually murdered sleep . I got up and in a ...
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