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nouncement, “a close resemblance to the Chinese.” They proved to have been engraved by the village blacksmith, who had probably no better suggestion to his antiquarian labors than the lid of a Chinese tea-box. Each plate, it should be remarked, had an orthodox “ideographic sign,” quite after the fashion of its more famous counterpart.

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