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suppose the milk is sold on the premises. It
was called Vaccaria Normanda. The language
here is quite a study for me. I don't know it
but its changes from the Spanish are of a pretty
regular kind so I can spell my way through
pretty well. It rejoices in vowels, discarding
consonants. E. G. Union - Uniao; Concepcion
Conceiçao; but could mamma tell what means
" Irmaos " from her knowledge of Spanish --
"hermanos." It is quite funny to contrast
with French thus: Without, [language abbreviation; above the line:] Fr sans, [language abbreviation; above the line:] Sp sin,
[language abbreviation; above the line:] Port sem. The gardens are a very charming feature
ofthis [of this] attractive town -- many plants that
could not live with us growing freely and
large outof [out of] doors -- ??chiefly?? great palms
of different kinds, in addition towhich [to which] they
have many of our own plants. These public
gardens are scattered all over, and from many
you get beautiful views. As for me, I simply
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Above the French-language, Spanish-language, and Portuguese-language synonyms for English-language "Without", writer Alfred T. Mahan has written abbreviations of the names of the respective languages; I have placed these abbreviations before the associated words in the transcription, with [language abbreviation; above the line:] in rectangular brackets before the abbreviations, and the abbreviations immediately -- respectively -- before each of the 3 compared words.
I have transcribed 2 pairs of words written without separating spaces -- "outof" and "ofthis" -- as they were written, with the pairs as meant ( out of and of this) in rectangular brackets afterward.