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                      THE POST OFFICE & ITS STORY

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[Illustration: HEAVING OVERBOARD THE MAILS.]

      Fernando Noronha is a little island in the South Atlantic
      Ocean, and when a vessel does not call there the letters are
      enclosed in a cask, to which a flag is attached; this is
      cast into the sea and there left floating until a boat from
      the island picks it up. The island is sighted by perhaps
      more ships and visited by fewer than any other spot on the
      globe.

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                            THE POST OFFICE
                             AND ITS STORY

                       _AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF
                  THE ACTIVITIES OF A GREAT GOVERNMENT
                              DEPARTMENT_




                                   BY
                             EDWARD BENNETT




                         With 31 Illustrations




                                 LONDON
                       SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LTD.
                        38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET
                                  1912

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