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This is Volume 1 of a 3-volume set. The other two volumes are also accessible in Project Gutenberg using [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48137] and [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48138].
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, L.L.D.
Publish'd April 1, 1806; by Longman, Rees, Hurst, & Orme, Paternoster Row.
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