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[2'«> S. X. Oct. 13. 'Cr, 



not help suspecting that the name is a corruption, 

 made perhaps in joke, from verso, towards, or one 

 of its cognates : in this case the name has an allu- 

 sion to the figure of the curve. A. De Mokgan. 



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Antiquarian, Ethnological, and other Researches in New 

 Granada, Equador, Peru, and Chili, with Observations on 

 the Fre- Incarial, Incarial, and other Monuments of the 

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Order is not Mr. Bollaert's first law — and a very valu- 

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Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks, and Oxford- 

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A History of the Church of England from the Accession 

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We have here a praiseworthy attempt to supply an 

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Poems. By John Collett, late of Wadham College, 

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This is another of the interesting and useful Series of 

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earnest Nonconformist. But he had had the advantage of 

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