Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Letters Written Home: While Acting as Secretary to Commodore John C. Long, Commander of the U. S. Steam Frigate Merrimac, on a Voyage to the South American Coast and the Islands of the South Pacific, in the Years 1857-1858
As a matter of local interest the contents of this volume may be of some interest to citizens of this town and Ports mouth. Commodore John C. Long, the commander of the United States Steam Frigate Merrimac, was a native of Portsmouth.
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