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A60582 Remarks upon the manners, religion and government of the Turks together with a survey of the seven churches of Asia, as they now lye in their ruines, and a brief description of Constantinople / by Tho. Smith ...; Epistolae duae. English Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710. 1678 (1678) Wing S4246; ESTC R4103 118,462 352

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