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Davidson, Guilford, and Randolph counties, N N.C., in a heavily forested
Piedmont region; settled…
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A man sated of the world, who roams from place to place to flee from himself. The “childe” is, in fact, Lord Byron himself, who was only twenty-one when he began, and twenty-eight when he…
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