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“Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland," from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly (Ch. lxxii. Concerning snakes) thus: "There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island."”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e874df93532b8ad5d963a13813bcf487bf45066a04c07e3aba3e1352606f03ed
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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