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46 although the lower parts have appeared as distinct as the strength of the drawing shews. But I never had longer than the slow-glimpse-sight.

“k l m. The bulky upper parts, which, though always indistinct, appeared once or twice to be hid by an horizontal broad projection, and which has often made me query whether they rose through an aperture of the cellar ceiling into the room above, which the assassins’ brain-sayings have frequently seemed to acknowledge.

“n. The windmill kind of sails I have so often mentioned, only seen by the glimpse of sympathy ; and to prevent my judging of which, the assassins would dash with full strong sympathy or brain-saying, ‘a whirligig,’ used by children for amusement. But such windmill ever appeared as standing on the table.