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| Title | The Scenery and Poetry of the English Lakes: A Summer Ramble |
| Author | Charles Mackay |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 234 pages |
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