A gallop among American scenery: or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventureSilliman, Augustus E. (Augustus Ely)
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A gallop among American scenery: or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventure
Silliman, Augustus E. (Augustus Ely)
Atlantic States -- Description and travel
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Preliminary notices are affixed to the long poems,—the whole of the notes
retained,—and such additional ones incorporated as the author, since the
first publication, has seen occasion to insert.
_Contents._
_Joan of Arc._
_Juvenile and Minor Poems._
_Thalaba the Destroyer._
_Madoc._
_Ballads and Metrical Tales._
_The Curse of Kehama._
_Roderick the last of the Goths._
_The Poet’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo._
_Lay of the Laureate._
_Vision of Judgment, &c._
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from Author’s Preface._
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