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VOLUME VIII.

BOSTON:

RUSSELL, ODIORNE, AND METCALF,

AND

HILLIARD, GRAY, AND CO.

1835.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, by JARED SPARKS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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