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rise up like exhalations throughout a
Melrose, and Jedburgh, and Holyrood, and a hundred more magnificent edifices, rise up like exhalations throughout a poor and barren country; the people are proud in their faith, and perhaps even prouder in the actual splendour of their altars.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

returned under Lieutenant Evans these are
A fortnight later in latitude 87° 32´ S. three more men returned under Lieutenant Evans: these are the Second Return Party.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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