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| Title | Intellectual Arithmetic, Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction Colburn's first lessons |
| Author | Warren Colburn |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | U. Hunt, 1828 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 178 pages |
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