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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER III
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Our postmaster thought he was not allowed to send the mails by such a conveyance.
"Yesterday we got up quite an excitement because a large steamship was seen near the Haul-over.

She set a flag for a pilot, and was boarded.

It was found that she was out of course, twenty days from Glasgow, bound to New York.

What the European news is we do not yet know, but it is plain that we are nearer to Europe than to Hyannis.

Christians as we are, I am afraid we were all sorry that she did not come ashore.


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