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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCXL. FEBRUARY 1844. Vol. LV.

CONTENTS:

THE HERETIC
THRUSH-HUNTING. BY ALEXANDER DUMAS
HIGH LIFE IN THE LAST CENTURY
NEWS FROM AN EXILED CONTRIBUTOR
THE PROPHECY OF THE TWELVE TRIBES
A BEWAILMENT FROM BATH; OR, POOR OLD MAIDS
MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART VIII.
SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
SITTING FOR A PORTRAIT
MY FRIEND
THE LAND OF SLAVES
THE PRIEST'S BURIAL
PRUDENCE
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THE HERETIC.[1]

[1] _The Heretic_. Translated from the Russian of Lajetchnikoff. By
T.B. Shaw, B.A. of Cambridge. In three volumes.

It is now about three centuries since Richard Chancellor, pilot-major of
the fleet which, under the command of Sir Hugh Willoughby, and by the
advice of Sebastian Cabot, set out to discover a north-east passage to
China, carried his ship, the Edward Bonaventura, into Archangel. The rest
of the fleet put into a haven on the coast of Lapland, where all their
crews, with the gallant commander, perished miserably of cold and hunger.
Chancellor, accompanied by Master George Killingworthe, found his way