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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.......

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...ER V: UPPER CANADA .................................................................................................................. 71 CHAPTER VII: NIAGARA ...................................................................................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ....................................................................

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