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| Title | A Universal Gazetteer; Or, Geographical Dictionary: Founded on the Works of Brookes and Walker |
| Author | George Landmann |
| Publisher | Longman, Orme, and Company, 1840 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 743 pages |
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