Fugitive Essays, Upon Interesting and Useful Subjects, Relating to the Early History of Ohio: Its Geology and Agriculture, with a Biography of the First Successful Constructor of Steamboats ; a Dissertation Upon the Antiquity of the Material Universe, and Other Articles, Being a Reprint from Various Periodicals of the Day |
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