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A07216 A briefe discourse of the Nevv-found-land with the situation, temperature, and commodities thereof, inciting our nation to goe forward in that hopefull plantation begunne. Mason, John, 1586-1635. 1620 (1620) STC 17616; ESTC S109928 7,050 16

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