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| Title | An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island : and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 1 May 2007 |
| Length | 384 pages |
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