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_Harper’s Stereotype Edition._
THE
LIVES
OF
CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS.
BY
JAMES AUGUSTUS ST. JOHN.
Wand’ring from clime to clime, observant stray’d,
Their manners noted and their states survey’d.
POPE’S HOMER.