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Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first, or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.
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Baedeker's Great Britain (1887), "From London to Oxford"

 

Karl Baedeker

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