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Bibliographic information
| Title | Adams's New Arithmetic |
| Author | Daniel Adams |
| Publisher | J. & J.W. Prentiss, 1830 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 264 pages |
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