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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 31

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st stone was setand fixed, and the hardRoman mortar settleddown to withstand allthat the Picts and theblows and buffets ofeighteenhundred north-ern winters could do.Eight feet wide at thebase, sixteen feet highwhen it was perfect, dark, and keen, with fierce bright eyes shining the great wall… … SITE OF AN OLD ROMAN CAMP UPON A HILL, WITH THE RAMPART LEADING UP TO IT.

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