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THE AMERICAN REPRINT
OF The
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA.
Ninth Edition. Edited BY

THOMAS SPENCER BAYNEs. IL. D.,
Professor Of Logic Rhetoric and Metaphysics in the Unyor
sity Of st. Andrews.
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