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A45530 Christian geography and arithmetick, or, A true survey of the world together with the right art of numbering our dayes therein being the substance of some sermons preached in Bristol / by Thomas Hardcastle. Hardcastle, Thomas, d. 1678? 1674 (1674) Wing H699; ESTC R29470 88,947 217

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