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| Title | Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious Notes |
| Author | Thomas Edgar |
| Publisher | Printed at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 27 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 283 pages |
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