A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads: And Interior Communication in General ... with Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Rail-roads, and the Power of the Present Locomotive Engines

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Carey & Lea, 1832 - Railroads - 598 pages
 

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Page 11 - A SELECTION OF ONE HUNDRED PERRIN'S FABLES, accompanied by a Key, containing the text, a literal and free translation, arranged in such a manner as to point out the difference between the French and the English idiom, also a figured pronunciation of the French, according to the best French works extant on the subject; the whole preceded by a short treatise on the sounds of the French language, compared with those of the English.
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