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Lord Rosebery's' curious speculation. Union.opinion is, "I do not think that, far from his own barren and ungrateful soil of Scot- Inud, amid the tropical luxuriance of Jamaica, and amid the degrading conditions of slavery, together with the convivial associations of that island at that time, we shoold bare heard much more of Burna..

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