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while the seven heads did not move, yet according to the point of the compass (of the dragon: which did mővé ), they knew the position of the shook; and they corroborated it by tha supernatural way in which] the facts tallied. Judging by the records in the histories, such a thing had never before existed. On one occasion the mechanist of a dragon went off, but that Barth did not move perceptibly; and all the learned at the capital mocked at the failure. But several days fater & post Arrived, and there had really been an sarthquake in Lung hat (about (300 miles to the west); Land upon errone admitted the mys
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