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more reminiscent of the Middle Ages than modern times. The roads were poor and dangerous or mere cattle-paths requiring a local guide. Dorothy notes the road quality along each segment from "most excellent", "roughish", to "very bad" to "wretchedly bad". Finding a place to sleep meant finding a
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would publish it for the first time. It sold so well a second edition came soon after, with others to follow, including one in the US: a third edition in 1894 and a fourth in 1897. In 1941, it was recognized again when
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