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Account of ye Post of ye Continent of Nth. America as they were Regulated by ye Postmasters Genl. of ye Post House. The Western Post setts out from Philadelphia every Fryday leaving Letters at Burlington and Pert Amboy and arrives at New York on Sunday night; the distance between Philadelphia
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