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| Title | Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, Volume 2 Issue 18434 of Early American imprints |
| Author | Sir Robert Ker Porter |
| Publisher | Hopkins and Earle, 1809 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 475 pages |
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