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John MacGregor

A Floating Freehold

by Henry Mills Alden,

From “Voyage Alone in the Rob Roy,” which appeared in the May 1868 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete essay — along with the magazine’s entire 164-year archive — is available online at harpers.org/fromthearchive.

Editor’s literary record

The Rob Roy on the Jordan

by Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey,

Voyage alone in the Rob Roy

by Henry Mills Alden,

The Rob Roy in the Baltic

by Mary Titcomb,

Cruise of the Rob Roy

by Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey,

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