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        "Insets: Alaska -- Philippine Islands -- Guam -- Wake I. -- Howland I. and Baker I. -- Hawaii -- Samoa -- Tutuila I. -- Map of Central America showing the Panama Canal -- Porto Rico -- Continuation of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island."
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