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A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521-1921

Note 111 — VI

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Cambridge is depicted in rosy colours:

The Air is very healthful, and the Town plentifully supplied with excellent Water.... Nor is it better supplied with Water, than it is with other Necessaries of life. The purest Wine they receive by the Way of Lynn.... Firing is cheap; Coals from Seven-pence to Nine-pence a Bushel.

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