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| Title | Nautilus: Or Cruising Under Canvas |
| Author | John Newland Maffitt |
| Publisher | United States publishing Company, 1872 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 352 pages |
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