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Dartmouth's Ledyard Canoe Club, in the Spring of 2002, two Dartmouth juniors, Peter Bohler and Peter Brewitt, repeated Ledyard's journey. They traveled over 2,000 miles from Stockholm to St. Petersburg through Sweden, Finland, and Russia, following an old Swedish mail route called the
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state copyright by special act of the legislature; federal copyright was not introduced until 1790.) Today, this work is annotated in rare-book bibliographies as the first travelogue describing Hawaii ever to be published in
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in August 1788, but the expedition was slow to start. Late in
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