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A40522 A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels begun 1672 and finished 1681 : containing observations made of the moral, natural and artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables. Fryer, John, d. 1733. 1698 (1698) Wing F2257; ESTC R23401 489,960 472

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