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Bibliographic information
| Title | Annual Register, Volume 79 |
| Editor | Edmund Burke |
| Contributor | Biodiversity Heritage Library |
| Published | 1838 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 16 Aug 2005 |
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