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Letters from the Alleghany Mountains.
BY CHARLES LANMAN,
Librarian of the War Department: Author of “A Summer in the Wilderness,” &c.
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The Turkish Evening Entertainments:
The Wonders of Memorials and the Rarities of Anecdotes. By Ahmed Ben Hemden, the Kiyaya. Translated from the Turkish.