Item Seed: Private Gazetteer of JJ and JW Abert.

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Private Gazetteer of JJ and JW Abert

(US Topographical Corps)

 

This set of six very fat notebooks and journals is essentially the esoteric explorer’s equivalent of El Dorado — a description of which can be found in volume 3, pages 56-59.  Lt. James Abert rather liked it; lovely climate and excellent cuisine.  They even had coffee, which had been blessedly brought in by a previous explorer a century before. One of his better places to have a visit, all in all.

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