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life among the early miners in California with
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TIE REVISED New TESTAMENT. The American
version. n. Y: Fords, Howard Il Hubert
BY all the reprints thus far In this county of
The Revised New Testament all the readings
and rcndcrings preferred by the American Com
mittec Of Revision" are relGgatcd to a back seat
in list appended to the work, or at most put in.
to foot notes, leaving every man to pick out the
connections ana substitutions as best he can.
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