Happy is the man that findeth wisdom.- Prov. iij. 13.

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DAVID BROWN, AND OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH ;

AND JAMES DUNCAN, LONDON.

1824.

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CAPTAIN ANDREW THOMSON, R. N.

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