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Second Edition,

CAREFULLY corrected, aND GREATLY ENLARGED WITH CURIOUS, VALUABLE, AND AUTHENTIC MATTER.

VOLUME I.

BY Eneas

Author of the History of Egypt, and Editor of Modern Geography, Select Biography, Life of Napoleon

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