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Prominent Features of a Northern Tour. Written from a Brief Diary, Kept in Travelling from Charleston, S. C, to and through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Lower and Upper Canada, New York, Maine, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and back to Charleston again.
