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 Edgar the Eagle went to Helvetia, under the shadow of the lofty Alps, and built Aarburg, beside a river there, without a name, but which was subsequently called after the town past which it glides. Ufo the Dolphin led an army into Burgundy, and taking possession of a portion of that kingdom, called the conquered province Dauphiny. And in the same spirit that the three Princes played upon their transformations in the names of their towns and dynasties, so they adopted the same creatures whose forms they had borne, as their crests, so that to this very day Bernburg has a bear with a golden crown on his head, Aarburg an eagle, and Dauphiny a salt-water fish, in their several coats of arms. And the finest pearls that adorn the brows of their descendants, on gala-days, and which pass for oriental jewels, are none other than those which came from the pond in the enchanted forest, in the three canvas bags.