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Excerpt from The Debate in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, March 26, 1823: On Mr. Hume's Presenting a Petition From Mary Ann Carlile, a Prisoner in Dorchester Gaol
Some gentlemen on the ministerial benches smiled when America was alluded to; this is quite in character. Ignorance is very apt to smile at its own fatuity. In 1813 when ministers thought it necessary to have ships on Lake Ontario, rn North America, so great was their ignorance that they sent out iron tanks to hold fresh water, wisely concluding that the lakes in America were salt.
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