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ASTOR, LENOX TILBEN FOUNDATIONS

griculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal I

provement, Commerce,

PUBLIC POLICY,

AND

POLITE LITERATURE.

Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts are the basis of Civilization.

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VOL. VIII.

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