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Title: Exploration of the valley of the Amazon : made under direction of the Navy Department by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857 Gibbon, Lardner United States. Navy Dept
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