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Samuel Hearne : A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, Undertaken ... for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, etc. in the Years 1769-1772

"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend [ii 89], 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft on the Negroes in the West Indies, and Hearne's deeply interesting Anecdotes of similar workings on the imagination of the Copper Indians ...'"

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

Samuel Hearne : A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort, in Hudson's Bay

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

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