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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER III
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When they reached her a rope was thrown to them, and they made fast and the coal was raised.

We watched them through a glass, and saw a woman leaning over the side of the ship.

The steamer left at five o'clock that day.
"It was worth the trouble of a ride to 'Sconset to see the masses of snow on the road.

The road had been cleared for the coal-carts, and we drove through a narrow path, cut in deep snow-banks far above our heads, sometimes for the length of three or four sleighs.

We could not, of course, turn out for other sleighs, and there was much waiting on this account.


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