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With the great earthquake which devastated Tokyo st!}} fresh in our memory, the Rav, A. C. Moule calls to mind at a very early attempt to record earth- quakes by a mechanical contrl- vance was made in China by Chang Hong, a man well known for his literary and scientific ability.

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mouth, and halow (each) waS & each holding a copper ball in its

frog with mouth wide enough to catch the ball. The cogged ma* chinery and cunning construc- |tions were hidden inside the jar, and the cover fitted down closely all round without a crevice.

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If there was an earth move- ment, then the jar shook, the mechanism of a ́ dragon released and vomited the ball, and the frog caught the ball fi its mouth. The sound of the sbak- ing was high and loud, and the observor was thus aroused to: know (of the earthquake). Even. though it was the mechanism off

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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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