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Rh Majety, and afterwards turned to the Statue, but could ee no Change in the Stone.Surely, ays he to himelf there is ome mytical Meaning in this! This Incription mut be an Ænigma, the hidden Meaning of which I will endeavour to find; for a Philoopher would never expect a Stone to be turned to Gold; accordingly he meaured the Length of the Shadow, which the Statue gave on the Ground by the Sun hining on it and marked that particular Part where the Head fell, then getting a Chopnes (a Thing like a Spade) and digging, he dicovered a Copper-chet, full of Gold, with this Incription engraved on the Lid of it.

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