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fuch as were not known in the days of old : iire and balls iflued out of their mouths; and the men who had the charge thereof, could Ihoot the balls to an hair's breadth! They were the invention of Satan, and as it is written in the book of John^ the fweet finger of Albion.

9. Then the people of the provinces com- muned togethe- concerning this thing; and the great Sanhedrim of the people fent to the men • ho were occupied at the burning fiery furnace, that they fhould make engines like unto the engines that were in the fhips of the navy of the king of Britain.

1 o. And the men heated the furnace feven times hotter than it was wont to be heated, and they caft the iron into the furnace, and lo! it became an engine to dedroy men!

II. And the captains of the flips of the land yf Columbia, took the engines into the


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