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Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo

Author: Alexandre Dumas, Pere

Posting Date: November 8, 2008 [EBook #1184] Release Date: January, 1998 [This file last updated on September 13, 2010]

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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

Chapter 1.

Marseilles--The Arrival.

On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.

As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.

Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.

The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomegue, and approached

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