Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

N intelligent gentleman, residing in Mobile, relates this curious incident: A short time since I had occasion to visit Montgomery, and on…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Arica

Arica is built on a flat beach close to the sea, and since, almost lifeless; that he took it home, and hav- was very liable to be flooded…

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