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A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



health, after an absence of nearly five months, during which time I 

 had travelled one thousand one hundred and four miles, on snow 

 shoes, and had no other covering at night, in the woods, than a 



blanket and deer-skin, with the thermometer frequently at 



40°, 



and once at 



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out tasting food. 



and sometimes passing two or three days with 











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