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A REEL IN A BOTTLE, FOR JACK IN THE DOLDRUMS; BEING THE ADVENTURES OF TWO OF THE KING’S SEAMEN IN A VOYAGE TO THE CELESTIAL COUNTRY. Edited from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt.
Charles Scribner, New York: 1852
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