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  <dc:title>Letter from B Schnitler, Drontheim to [Edward Sabine]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Schnitler delivered copies of [Sabine’s] ‘experiments on the figure of the earth’, a volume of essays, and the sermons of Bishop Horne. Refers to a copy of Major [Alexander Gordon] Laing’s travels in Africa. Schnitler is sorry to learn of [Sabine’s] ill health and spirit, wishing him a speedy recovery. Refers to [Sabine’s] ‘proposal to the government of measuring an arc of 5 degrees of latitude at Spitzbergen’.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>28 December 1825</dc:date>
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