Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 441
he sea, and of the foreign countries I visit, I remainyour friend and sincere admirer, Alice Morrison. A Curious Panel, Dear St. Nicholas : Knowing the fondness of your readers forall sorts of rare and wonderful things, I send you a representationof a strange freak of nature that occupies a panel… … America, and its surface, when made flat, developed the curiouskneeling figure quite naturally, without the aid of art. For somereason the workmen began to call it St. Jacob ; perhaps because thefigure was thought to resemble some picture of that saint. 11 still bearsthat name, and some persons are…
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