The original territory of Rome consisted only of some miles of wood and meadow along the banks of the Tyber; and domestic exchange could add nothing to the national stock.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
R. Shelton Mackenzie , D.C.L., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. H. N. McTyeire , D.D., editor “Christian Advocate,” Nashville, Tenn.
— from My Cave Life in Vicksburg, with Letters of Trial and Travel by Mary Ann Webster Loughborough
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