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Salem, Mass. The Salem Athonaoum.
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QUALITY
and Island Possessions
Cuba, Canada and
The Athenaeum was incorporated March
6th, 1810. Its character and objects are in
many respects like those of the Boston Athe-
naeum. It was the outgrowth of the Social Lib.
rary of 1760 and of the Philosophical Library of
1781, the nucleus of which was a collection of
scientific books captured in the Irish Channel
by Capt. Hill, the privateersman.
THE HUGH C. LEIGHTON CO., MANUFACTURERS, PORTLAND. ME. U. S. A. L-1757
