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Title: A memoir of India and Avghanistaun
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Harlan, Josiah, 1799-1871. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Björnsjerna, Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand, grefve, 1779-1847 Eastern question (Central Asia)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Dobson (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lous forthe advent of Christ—Christians indifferent—Reproof-Origin of the traditionary prophecies—Consequences of thefall of Mahomedanism—Conflicting interests of the Europeanpowers in relation to Turkey—Battle of Armageddon—Restoration of the Jewish nation—Universal redemption—Michael the Grand Duke of Russia to restore the Jews—Warning and conclusion 178 APPENDIX III;English Account of the Massacre - - - - 196 ERRATA. Page 1, line 4th from bottom, for later read late. 3, for to whom read to those whom. 5, 15th from top, dele and. 12, 16th for the read that. 16, 13th for themselves read itself. 16, 9th from bottom, dele and. 21, 8th for guerilla read guerrilla. 25, 3d from top, for Bjorstjerna read Bjornstjerna. 26, 12th from bottom, for Bjorstjerna read Bjornstjerna. 41, 8th for Krauchee read Kranchee. 55, 11th from top, for Gujerath read Gujerath. 84, 5th note, for Peukola read Pekhora. 85, 2d note, readFinjanofGholebundis. 89, 3d from bottom, for Amir read Ameen.
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c 4 Cor//// PREFACE. The massacre en masse of a British army has awa-kened an intense desire for information concerningthe people and the country which have been thecause and scene of that appalHng tragedy, and pro-duced in that feeling a result which the profoundestinterests of philanthropy and politics, of religionand government, have heretofore, inauspiciously andunsuccessfully, strove in vain to accomplish. From day to day our opinion is confirmed, anda long train of terrific disasters still mark themalignant track of that destructive meteor in thepolitical history of England, A Whig Ministry,as the frantic policy of British statesmen of thatdenomination in India astound the world with thedevelopements of their awful and bloody sequenceslong subsequent to the origin of their designs. Having been frequently interrogated concerningthe probable consequences of the later movementsin Avghanistaun, I think I shall not be intrusive bypublishing, during this moment of general excite-ment,

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