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Letter to Sir Joseph Banks (president of the Royal Society of Great Britain) written by Lieut.-Governor Simcoe, in 1791, prior to his departure from England for the purpose of organizing the new province of Upper Canada : to which is added five official speeches delivered by him at the opening or closing of Parliament in the same province
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