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Who recorded the tale of Due d'Anville's Descent?

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The archive's variant of Due d'Anville's Descent is the one printed in Samuel Adams Drake (1884), and the collector names no informant for it. urn:lemay:boston:entity:due-d-anville-s-descent

The archive gives its source as Drake, A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore (1884), retrieved 2 September 2026. urn:lemay:boston:entity:due-d-anville-s-descent

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Question derived from
Folklore, and where it is printed
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claude-opus-5 (composed in the operator's pane, unarmed engine)
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8
Nearest record, cosine distance
0.410
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4770259e58a156ca2d7fcb8d12dd61a22b1146302fee9ed7a88a479725118c39
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