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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864

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Government with a view to making it a naval station in that case we should have the 6 months notice of the treaty of peace, it would be a most senseless thing for them to do but we must be prepared for the worst: it is no doubt an important situation, an old fort was built on it by the French & was afterwards taken & retaken by us from the Yankees. 18th Sunday at Mackinaw Nearly all the population is Romanist, there is a protestant Church but unused & in decay. 19th Left Mackinaw in a sailing boat for Point du tour the mouth of the St Mary river here we had to stop waiting for a
 
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