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Document Record

Creator
Wilson, Amos, b. 1774.
Title
The Pennsylvania hermit : a narrative of the most extraordinary life of Amos Wilson, who expired in a cave in the neighbourhood of Harrisburgh, (Penn.) after having therein lived in solitary retirement for the space of nineteen years, in consequence of the ignominious death of his sister : annexed is the writings of Wilson, while a recluse, and his reasons for preferring a state of solitude to that of the society of his fellow-beings.
Published
Saint John, N.B. : Printed for, and sold by E.W. Mitchell, 1840.
Identifier
oocihm.93313
93313
Subject
Wilson, Amos,b. 1774.
Wilson, Harriot,b. 1776.
Document source
Electronic reproduction.
Notes
"Re-printed from the Philadelphia edition."
Wilson's work is entitled: The sweets of solitude, or, Instructions to mankind, how they may be happy in a miserable world.
1 online resource.
23 pages ; 22 cm.
Collection
Monographs
Language
English
URL
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.93313