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 ¬nace the sacred images from the shrines of all temples throughout their whole planet, it would not perhaps be sufficient to extinguish the debt. ¬" But let me abandon this general description, which, though calculated to excite astonish- ment, is absurdly misapplied to a subject which requires the utmost possible precision. — I had forgotten also that I was speaking to a stranger from another world, who can know nothing of our mines and metals, or of their supposed pro- ductions and values; and having prepared my- self besides to satisfy your inquiries, I can give you the whole account in your own English money, and unless this twin of your earth lias been for some cause or other disinherited, and all the wealth bestowed by nature upon her brother, the figures of the accountant will even outstrip my figures of speech. ¬" To place the subject in the clearest point of view — the island of Annate, though shaken by ¬various ¬