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Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 16-Charles Knight · Science Fiction Library

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  Speaker 1: Section one of the Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine
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  Speaker 1: of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine
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  Speaker 1: of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue
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  Speaker 1: sixteen by Charles Knight the Abbey of Saint Albans. On
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  Speaker 1: the third of February last a part of the wall
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  Speaker 1: of the upper battlement on the southwest side of the
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  Speaker 1: Abbey of Saint Albans fell upon the roof below in
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  Speaker 1: two masses, at an interval of five minutes between the
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  Speaker 1: fall of each fragment. The concussion was so great that
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  Speaker 1: the inhabitants of the neighboring houses described resembling the loudest thunder,
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  Speaker 1: and the detached masses of the wall came down with
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  Speaker 1: such force that a large portion of the roof, consisting
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  Speaker 1: of lead and heavy timber, was driven into the aisle below.
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  Speaker 1: The abbey generally has been a good deal out of
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  Speaker 1: repair for several years, and it is now estimated that
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  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand pounds will be required to repair the damage
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  Speaker 1: and to save this venerable fabric from further injury. A
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  Speaker 1: public subscription has been opened for this laudable object, And
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  Speaker 1: when we consider the interest which the people of this
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  Speaker 1: country so properly attached to the monuments of our early civilization,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot doubt that the Abbey of Saint Albans will
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  Speaker 1: be rescued for several more generations from the devouring grasp
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  Speaker 1: of time. Saint Albans is, in many respects one of
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  Speaker 1: the towns of England most dignified by historical associations. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the principal places of the ancient Britons
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  Speaker 1: before the Roman conquest, and within twenty one years after
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  Speaker 1: the invasion of the island was raised by the Romans
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  Speaker 1: to the rank of a city under the name of Virolam.
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  Speaker 1: Many considerable fragments of the Roman Virilam still exist at
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  Speaker 1: a short distance from the present town, particularly a large
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  Speaker 1: piece of a wall constructed of Roman tile, now called
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  Speaker 1: Gorumbury Block. Doctor Stukeley, a celebrated antiquarian writer, has calculated
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  Speaker 1: that about a hundred acres were included within the Roman wall.
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  Speaker 1: The greater part of the city, first built by the Romans,
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  Speaker 1: was demolished by the Britons under Queen Bodicea in the
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  Speaker 1: sixty first year after the birth of Christ, but it
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  Speaker 1: was soon rebuilt and the inhabitants continued under the protection
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  Speaker 1: of the Romans for a long period. In the persecution
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  Speaker 1: of the Christians under the Roman emperor Diocletian, in the
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  Speaker 1: year three oh four, Alban, a native of Vilam who
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  Speaker 1: had been a soldier at Rome, suffered martyrdom for his faith,
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  Speaker 1: and being the first Briton who had been put to
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  Speaker 1: death for his religious opinions, he is called England's proto
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  Speaker 1: Martyr or first Martyr, as Saint Stephen is called the
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  Speaker 1: proto martyr of Christianity. In seven ninety five, offa king
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  Speaker 1: of the Mercians, founded an abbey at Homeherst, close by
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  Speaker 1: the ancient Virolam, in honor of Saint Alban, and the
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  Speaker 1: place was thenceforward called Saint Albans. The abbey flourished for
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  Speaker 1: more than seven centuries. Its buildings, erected from time to time,
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  Speaker 1: resembled a town more than a religious house. It had
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  Speaker 1: magnificent apartments in which the kings of the twelfth and
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth centuries were frequently entertained. The annual revenues during its
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  Speaker 1: greatest prosperity were valued at twenty five hundred pounds, an
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  Speaker 1: enormous sum. In those days of this immense establishment, nothing
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  Speaker 1: is left but the present conventual church, a gatehouse, and
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  Speaker 1: a few scattered walls. The church, which was principally erected
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  Speaker 1: in the reign of William Rufus, is in magnitude equal
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  Speaker 1: to our largest cathedrals. It measures five hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: feet from east to west. If we include a chapel
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  Speaker 1: at one end six hundred and six feet, The extreme
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  Speaker 1: breadth at the intersection of the transsepts is two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventeen feet. The exterior of this great pile is
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  Speaker 1: not very beautiful, but the spectator is struck with its vastness,
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  Speaker 1: its simplicity, and its appearance of extreme age. A large
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  Speaker 1: part of the original edifice is composed of materials taken
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  Speaker 1: from the ruins of the ancient Peralum, consisting chiefly of
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  Speaker 1: Roman tile. These portions of the interior are very rude
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  Speaker 1: and form a striking contrast to other parts which were
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  Speaker 1: finished after the elegant Norman style was adopted in this country.
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  Speaker 1: In this manner, it occurs that we see at Saint
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  Speaker 1: Albans a mixture of the round and the pointed arch,
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  Speaker 1: and two sides of the same building directly opposite each other.
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  Speaker 1: It is singular that, as one side of the building
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  Speaker 1: fell into decay, the latter style of architecture, that of
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  Speaker 1: the pointed arch, should have been used, or the more
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  Speaker 1: ancient round arch was suffered to remain on the opposite side.
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  Speaker 1: This want of uniformity greatly diminishes the beauty of the interior,
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  Speaker 1: but still many of its effects are remarkably striking, particularly
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  Speaker 1: that of the vast length of the church from east
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  Speaker 1: to west. Some parts of the edifice furnish also beautiful
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  Speaker 1: and perfect specimens of the most delicate workmanship. The abbey
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  Speaker 1: church of Saint Albans contains the monuments of several illustrious men,
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  Speaker 1: particularly that of Due Comfrey of Gloucester, the brother of
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  Speaker 1: Henry the Fifth, But Saint Albans possesses the much higher
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  Speaker 1: distinction of being the burial place, as it was the
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  Speaker 1: abode of the Great Lord Bacon. The old church of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Michael in this town contains the remains of the
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  Speaker 1: immortal founder of the inductive philosophy, which delivered the human
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  Speaker 1: mind from the tyranny of opinions established by prescription and authority,
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  Speaker 1: and led the way for every man to think for
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  Speaker 1: himself and to rely upon the truth of established facts alone.
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  Speaker 1: As the materials for his conclusions. The following is a
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  Speaker 1: representation of Lord Bacon's monument and of section one.
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  Speaker 2: Section two of Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine of
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  Speaker 2: the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 2: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 2: visit LibriVox dot org. Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine
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  Speaker 2: of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue
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  Speaker 2: sixteen by Charles Knight. Machinery and Manufacturers The Economy of
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  Speaker 2: Machinery and Manufacturers by Charles Babbage, Esquire, A M. Lucasian
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  Speaker 2: Professor of Mathematics in the Universe, Cambridge, eight Vo. London, c. Night,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen thirty two. Here is a work of no common interest.
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  Speaker 2: Its object, as stated by the author in his introductory paragraph,
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  Speaker 2: is to point out the effects and the advantages which
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  Speaker 2: arise from the use of tools and machines, to endeavor
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  Speaker 2: to classify their modes of action, and to trace both
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  Speaker 2: the causes and consequences of applying machinery to supersede the
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  Speaker 2: skill and power of the human arm it professes to embrace.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore both a very important branch of the science of
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  Speaker 2: political economy and the whole domain of the mechanical arts.
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  Speaker 2: The word manufacture, which means fabrication by the hand, has
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  Speaker 2: become singularly inapplicable to the thing which it is used
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  Speaker 2: to denote. The human hand now performs but a comparatively
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  Speaker 2: small part in most of these processes to which the
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  Speaker 2: name of manufactures is given, and in some of the
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  Speaker 2: most stupendous and wonderful of them, its aid is hardly
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  Speaker 2: at all employed. Where the steam engine applies its mighty energies,
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  Speaker 2: man has in many cases little more to do than
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  Speaker 2: look on. If the expression a manufacturing country were to
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  Speaker 2: be taken in its literal sense, as meaning a country
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  Speaker 2: where the articles were generally made by the hand, it
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  Speaker 2: would be much more truly applicable to Spain or Russia,
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  Speaker 2: or Poland or Hindostan, or indeed to any other country
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  Speaker 2: of the Earth than two hours. We are, of all
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  Speaker 2: others the people who do least by the hand. When
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  Speaker 2: we say, therefore, that England is a manufacturing country and
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  Speaker 2: that Poland is not, we mean merely that great numbers
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  Speaker 2: of articles of use and of luxury are fabricated in
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  Speaker 2: the former country, without any necessary reference to the mode
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  Speaker 2: in which they are fabricated. But it so happens that
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  Speaker 2: such articles cannot be fabricated in great abundance except by
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  Speaker 2: means of machinery. And therefore we often use the term
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  Speaker 2: manufacturing as nearly synonymous with mechanical, or at least as
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  Speaker 2: applying the extensive agency of machinery. It should be borne
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  Speaker 2: in mind, however, that agriculture is also a manufacturer, and
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  Speaker 2: that whether a country produces iron or corn, each branch
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  Speaker 2: of industry involves mechanical aid. However, we may choose to
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  Speaker 2: distinguish between a manufacturing and an agricultural country. The book
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  Speaker 2: upon the subject of manufacturers, which mister Babbage has now
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  Speaker 2: given to the world, consists chiefly of a very large
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  Speaker 2: and multifarious collection of the mechanical expedients employed in the
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  Speaker 2: different branches of our national industry, arranged according to the
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  Speaker 2: general prince, of which each is an exemplification. The author has,
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  Speaker 2: in this way furnished a work which is not less
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  Speaker 2: interesting to the mere general reader than it is likely
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  Speaker 2: to prove valuable to the student of mechanics. Surrounded, as
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  Speaker 2: we are in this country by the wonders of mechanical invention,
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  Speaker 2: he among us must be singularly destitute of enlightened curiosity,
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  Speaker 2: who feels no desire to understand the operation of those
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  Speaker 2: beautiful and most effective contrivances which he everywhere sees or
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  Speaker 2: hears in motion, or to trace through the various stages
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  Speaker 2: of their fabrication, those numberless articles of use and abornament
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  Speaker 2: of which every one of our shops, and it may
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  Speaker 2: almost be said of our homes, is full. The history
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  Speaker 2: of some of the most apparently trivial or insignificant of
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  Speaker 2: these productions. Of a pin or a needle, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: is often a rich succession of the most exquisite efforts
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  Speaker 2: of ingenuity, of the most important results obtained by the
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  Speaker 2: simplest means, and of a velocity, and at the same
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  Speaker 2: time perfection of operation, which to the unaccustomed observer would
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  Speaker 2: seem little short of miraculous. The wonders of our manufacturers
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  Speaker 2: are not less deserving of our examination, because they are
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  Speaker 2: performed in the very midst of us, and may be
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  Speaker 2: made perfectly intelligible to all who care to understand them.
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  Speaker 2: But it is to those who are actually engaged in
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  Speaker 2: mechanical invention that this volume is doubtless fitted to render
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  Speaker 2: the most important service. Let the particular department upon which
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  Speaker 2: a person so employed as exercising his thoughts be what
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  Speaker 2: it may, His success is likely to depend in no
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  Speaker 2: small degree upon his general familiarity with mechanical contrivances. It
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  Speaker 2: has not infrequently happened that, for want of this diversified knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: the inventors and improvers of machines or processes have devoted
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  Speaker 2: their solitary efforts for a long time in vain, in
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  Speaker 2: attempting merely to accomplish what had already been completely achieved
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  Speaker 2: in some other department of mechanical skill with which they
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  Speaker 2: happened to have no acquaintance. In other cases, a contrivance
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  Speaker 2: applicable to many different branches, although introduced in one of
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  Speaker 2: the number, has remained unknown to the cultivators of all
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  Speaker 2: the others. For many years. Thus, for example, the valuable
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  Speaker 2: contrivance of the fly shuttle, although introduced into the woolen
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  Speaker 2: manufactory about the year seventeen thirty eight, was not employed
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  Speaker 2: in the weaving of cottons, where it was equally applicable
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  Speaker 2: till more than twenty years afterwards. So also, as mister
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  Speaker 2: Babbage notices, the expedient of placing the workmen employed in
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  Speaker 2: beating out the blades of scythes in a seat suspended
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  Speaker 2: by ropes from the ceiling, to give him sufficient freedom
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  Speaker 2: and rapidity of motion to bring the different parts of
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  Speaker 2: the iron upon the andvill and quick succession. Although introduced
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  Speaker 2: in the manufacture of scythes long ago, has only been
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  Speaker 2: recently applied to that of anchors, an art which, as
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  Speaker 2: he remarks, the contrivance, is of still greater importance. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Such a work as the one before us, is admirably
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  Speaker 2: calculated to present all this waste of inventive labor, and
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  Speaker 2: to ensure the communication of any new or valuable contrivance
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  Speaker 2: to all descriptions of manufactures in which it is fitted
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  Speaker 2: to be available. An inventor who has made himself completely
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  Speaker 2: master of this work will have obtained a knowledge both
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  Speaker 2: of all the principal expedients which have hitherto been employed
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  Speaker 2: in mechanics, and of the science principles upon which all
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  Speaker 2: mechanical devices must depend. And a man so instructed and
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  Speaker 2: may be fairly inferred, will be likely not only to
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  Speaker 2: waste but little time in rediscovering what has been already
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  Speaker 2: found out, but also defined. His efforts and original invention
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  Speaker 2: crowned with far more rapid and more satisfying success than
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  Speaker 2: would have otherwise attended them. From the multiplicity of most
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  Speaker 2: interesting subjects of which mister Babbage has treated, the mere
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  Speaker 2: enumeration of which would far exceed our limits, we select
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  Speaker 2: only two specimens of the entertainment to be found in
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  Speaker 2: the work. The following account of a foreign manufacture would
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  Speaker 2: appear incredible if we did not know to what singular
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  Speaker 2: uses the instincts of animals may be directed. Lace made
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  Speaker 2: by caterpillars, a most extraordinary species of manufacture, which is
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  Speaker 2: in a slight degree connected with copying, has been contrived
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  Speaker 2: by an officer of engineers residing at Munich. It consists
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  Speaker 2: of lace and veils with open patterns in them, made
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  Speaker 2: entirely by caterpillars. The following is the mode of proceeding adopted.
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  Speaker 2: Having made a paste of the leaves of the plant
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  Speaker 2: on which the species of caterpillar he employs feeds, he
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  Speaker 2: spreads it thinly over a stone or other flat substance
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  Speaker 2: of the required size. He then, with a camel hair
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  Speaker 2: pencil dipped in olive oil, draws a pattern he wishes
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  Speaker 2: the insects to leave open. This stone is then placed
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  Speaker 2: in an inclined position, and a considerable number of the
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  Speaker 2: caterpillars are placed at the bottom. A peculiar species is chosen,
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  Speaker 2: which spins a strong web, and the animals commence at
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  Speaker 2: the bottom, eating and spinning their way to the top,
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  Speaker 2: carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring
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  Speaker 2: every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of
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  Speaker 2: these veils, combined with some strength, is truly surprising. One
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  Speaker 2: of them, measuring twenty six and a half inches by
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  Speaker 2: seventeen inches, weigh only one point five to one grains,
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  Speaker 2: a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly by
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  Speaker 2: contrast with other fabrics. One square yard of the substance
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  Speaker 2: of which these veils are made weighs four grains and
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  Speaker 2: one third, whilst one square yard of silk gauze weighs
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty seven grains and one square yard
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  Speaker 2: of the finest patent net weighs two hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: two grains and a half. One of the most important
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  Speaker 2: manufacturers of our own country is that connected with the press,
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  Speaker 2: in all its various and complicated operations. The following account
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  Speaker 2: of a mode in which a great London newspaper is
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  Speaker 2: prepared will be read with interest in all parts of
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom. Another instance of the just application of machinery,
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  Speaker 2: even at an increased expense, arises with the shortness of
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  Speaker 2: time in which the article can be produced, as an
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  Speaker 2: important influence on its value. In the publication of our
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  Speaker 2: daily newspapers, it frequently happens that the debates in the
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  Speaker 2: houses of Parliament are carried on to three or four
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  Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, that is to within a very
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  Speaker 2: few hours of the time for the publication of the newspaper.
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  Speaker 2: The speeches must be taken down by reporters, conveyed by
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  Speaker 2: them to the establishment of the newspaper, perhaps at the
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  Speaker 2: distance of one or two miles, transcribed by them in
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  Speaker 2: the office set up by the compositor. The press corrected
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  Speaker 2: and the papers printed off and distributed before the public
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  Speaker 2: can read them. Some of these journals have a circulation
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  Speaker 2: from five to ten thousand daily, supposing four thousand to
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  Speaker 2: be wanted, and that they could be printed only at
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  Speaker 2: the rate of five hundred per hour upon one side
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  Speaker 2: of the paper, which was their greatest number. Two journeymen
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  Speaker 2: and a boy could take off by the old hand presses.
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  Speaker 2: Sixteen hours would be required for printing the complete edition,
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  Speaker 2: and the news conveyed to the purchasers of the latest
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  Speaker 2: portion of the impression would be out of date before
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  Speaker 2: they could receive it. To obviate this difficulty, it was
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  Speaker 2: often necessary to set up the paper and duplicate, and sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: when late, in triplicate. But the improvements in the printing
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  Speaker 2: machines have been so great that four thousand copies are
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  Speaker 2: now printed on one side in an hour. The establishment
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  Speaker 2: of the Times newspaper is an example on a large
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  Speaker 2: scale of a manufactory in which the division of labor,
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  Speaker 2: both mental and bodily, is admirably illustrated, and in which
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  Speaker 2: also the effects of the domestic economy is well exemplified.
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  Speaker 2: It is scarcely imagined by the thousands who read the
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  Speaker 2: paper in various quarters of the globe. What a scene
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  Speaker 2: of organized activity the factory presents during the whole night,
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  Speaker 2: or what a quantity of talent and mechanical skill is
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  Speaker 2: put in action for their amusement and information. Nearly one
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  Speaker 2: hundred persons are employed in this establishment, and during the
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  Speaker 2: session of Parliament, at least twelve reporters are constantly attending
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  Speaker 2: the House of Commons and Lords, each in his turn,
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  Speaker 2: after about an hour's work, retiring to translate into ordinary
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  Speaker 2: writing the speech he has just heard and noted in shorthand.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, fifty compositors are constantly at work, some
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  Speaker 2: of whom have already set up the beginning, whilst others
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  Speaker 2: are committing to type the yet undried manuscript of the
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  Speaker 2: continuation of his speech, whose middle portion is traveling to
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  Speaker 2: the office in the pocket of the hetety reporter, and
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  Speaker 2: whose eloquent conclusion is perhaps at that very moment making
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  Speaker 2: the walls of Saint Stephen's vibrate with the applause of
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  Speaker 2: its hearers. These congregated types, as fast as they are composed,
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  Speaker 2: are passed in portions to other hands, till at last
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  Speaker 2: scattered fragments of the debate forming. When united with the
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  Speaker 2: ordinary matter, eight and forty columns reappear in regular order
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  Speaker 2: on the platform of the printing press. The hand of
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  Speaker 2: man is now too slow for the demands of his curiosity,
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  Speaker 2: but the power of steam comes to his assistance. Ink
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  Speaker 2: is rapidly supplied to the moving types by the most
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  Speaker 2: perfect mechanism. Four attendants incessantly introduce the edges of large
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  Speaker 2: sheets of white paper to the junction of two great rollers,
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  Speaker 2: which seem to devour them with unsated appetite. Other rollers
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  Speaker 2: convey them to the type already inked, and have brought
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  Speaker 2: them into rapid and successive contact redelivered them to four
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  Speaker 2: other assistants, completely printed by the almost momentary touch. Thus,
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  Speaker 2: in one hour, four thousand sheets of paper are printed
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  Speaker 2: on one side, and an impression of twelve thousand copies
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  Speaker 2: from above three hundred thousand movable pieces of metal is
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  Speaker 2: produced for the public in six hours. The author of
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  Speaker 2: these pages, with one of his friends, was recently induced
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  Speaker 2: to visit this most interesting establishment after midnight, during the
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  Speaker 2: progress of a very important debate. The place was illuminated
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  Speaker 2: with gas and was light as the day. There was
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  Speaker 2: neither noise nor bustle, and the visitors were received with
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  Speaker 2: such calm and polite attention that they did not until
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  Speaker 2: afterwards become sensible of the inconvenience which such intruders at
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  Speaker 2: a moment of the greatest pressure must occasion, nor reflect
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  Speaker 2: that the tranquility which they admired was a result of
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  Speaker 2: intense and regulated occupation. But the effect of such clerks
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  Speaker 2: in the current of business will appear on recollecting that
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  Speaker 2: as four thousand newspapers are printed off on one side
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  Speaker 2: within the hour, every minute is attended with the loss
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  Speaker 2: of sixty six impressions the quarter of an hour, therefore,
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  Speaker 2: which the stranger may think is not unreasonable to claim
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  Speaker 2: for the gratification of his curiosity, and to him this
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  Speaker 2: time is but a moment may cause a failure in
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the delivery of one thousand copies and disappointing of proportionate
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: number of expectant readers in some of our distant towns
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: to which the morning papers are dispatched by the earliest
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: and most rapid conveyances of each day. This note is
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: inserted with the further and more general purpose of calling
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the attention of those, especially foreigners, who are desirous of
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: inspecting our larger manufactories to the chief cause of the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: difficulty which frequently attends their introduction when the establishment is
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: very extensive and its departments skillfully arranged. The exclusion of
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: visitors arises not from any illiberal jealousy, nor generally from
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: any desire of concealment, which would in most cases be absurd,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: but from the substantial inconvenience and loss of time throughout
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: an entire series of well combined operations, which must be
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  Speaker 2: occasioned even by short and casual interruptions. End of section
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  Speaker 2: two read by Bryce christ Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: Section three of Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine of
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  Speaker 3: the Society for the Division of Useful Knowledge, Issues sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: This is a Liberal box record. All librivos recordings are
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  Speaker 3: Supplement of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the
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  Speaker 3: Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issues sixteen by Charles Knight, Zoological Society.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: The last Monthly Report of the Proceedings of the Committee
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: of Science of the Zoological Society contains several facts of
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: general interest the female puma in the society's gardens brought
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: forth two young ones on the second of April. The
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: ground color of these is of a paler fawn than
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: that of either of the parents, and they are deeply spotted.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: The eyelids of one of them were partially unclosed on
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: April nine. The mother, whose temper was always mild, has
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: since become remarkably gentle, purring when the key goes into
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: her din, and allowing her young ones to be handled
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: and carried about without appearing to be annoyed by such treatment.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: The young, on the contrary, were when first born extremely fierce,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: hissing and scratching with all their might. They have, however,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: since become better timpered, though they are still spiteful. The
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: manners of both the mother and the young are similar
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: to those of the domestic cat and her kittens, the
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: former carrying the latter about from place to place in
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: her mouth for a day or two. Previously to her littering,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: she pulled the straw in her inner din into pieces,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: and thus formed a nest. Some curious experiments have been
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: made as to the mode of feeding quadrupeds of prey,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: which is best adapted to bringing them into good condition,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: and which may therefore be considered the most suited to
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: their natural habits. On January eleven, two leopards were weighed.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Number one weighed ninety one pounds. It was fed in
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: the usual manner, with four pounds of beef daily in
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: one meal given in the evening. Number two weighed one
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: hundred and a half pounds. It was supplied with two
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: pounds of beef at eight o'clock in the morning, and
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: with a like quantity at the same hour in the
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: evening daily. On February sixteen, after an interval of five weeks,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: they were again weighed. Number one had gained in weight
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: one pound. Number two had diminished in weight one half pound.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: No alteration was observed in the latter animal as regarded
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: his daily exercise, but he became more ferocious than he
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: had previously been and was particularly violent. On December twenty three,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: two hyenas were weighed. Number one weighed eighty six pounds.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: It was fat as usual, with three pounds of beef
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: daily at one meal in the evening. Number two weighed
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: ninety three pounds. It was supplied with the same quantity
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: of beef daily, divided into two equal portions, one of
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: which which was given in the morning and the other
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: in the evening. On February sixteen, after an interval of
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: eight weeks, they were again weighed, and number one was
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: found to have increased in weight one pound, while number
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: two had diminished in weight one pound. The latter animal
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: was observed to take less exercise than he had previously
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: been accustomed to and slept more than usual. His temper
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: was not affected, and he did not exhibit unusual signs
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: of hunger. During the continuance of the experiment, all the
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: animals were fasted one day in each week, in common
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: with the other carnivorous species kept in the menagerie. From
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: these experiments, it appears that carnivorous mammalia fed with two
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: meals daily do not continue in equally good condition with
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: those which have the same quantity of flash daily in
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: one meal only. It further appears that in one instance,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: that of the leopard, the temper changed for the worse,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: and thus animals of the genus Felus might become more
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: dangerous in a menagerie from the ferocity they would acquire
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: under such treatment, and that in another instance the habits
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: were altered as regarded exercise and diminution, of which in
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: confined animals must be injurious to health. The inference deduced
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: is consequently in favor of the continuance of the accustomed
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: mode of feeding the purely carnivorous animals with one meal daily.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: The same results were produced by the same experiments upon
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: two of a species less completely carnivorous. The paradoxory ginet.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: It may be inferred from the circumstance that quadrupeds of
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: prey thrive best with long intervals between their meals, and
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: that the difficulty which such animals experience in obtaining food
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: is counterbalanced by their requiring it not so frequently as
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: animals who feed on vegetables.
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  Speaker 4: Endo.
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  Speaker 5: Section three, Section four of Monthly Supplement of the Penny
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  Speaker 5: Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,
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  Speaker 5: Issue sixteen. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 5: of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: of Useful Knowledge, Issue sixteen, by Charles Knight. Statue of
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: William Pitt. A colossal statue of bronze, of which the
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: above is a representation, was erected in Hanover Square at
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: the end of last year to the memory of William Pitt.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: The orator is represented in the act of speaking. This statue,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: which in many respects is the finest in London, is
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: the work of mister Chantry. End of section four.
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  Speaker 4: Section five of Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine of
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issues sixteen.
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• 31:29
  Speaker 4: of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: of Useful Knowledge, Issue sixteen by Charles Knight Gleanings in
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: natural History. We have occasionally selected a paragraph from a
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: very pretty volume by mister Jesse, published under the above title.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: The author lives in the neighborhood of q and, like
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: mister White of Selborne, who made a small village in
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Hampshire one of the most interesting spots to the lover
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: of nature. By his ample descriptions of the natural objects
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: which he saw around him. Mister Jesse has rendered his
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: walks a vehicle for much instruction and amusement to himself
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: and to others. He principally confines his attention to zoology,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: the most generally attractive of the departments of natural history,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: and he looks upon the animal world with so much
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: practical wisdom, being disposed to be happy himself and to
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: see every creature around him, happy, that there are few
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: persons who will not read his slight sketches with improvement
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: to their hearts and understandings. We copy a passage descriptive
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: of the manner of taking deer for hunting in the
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: King's Parks. In addition to the herd of fallow deer
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: amounting to about one thousand, six hundred which are kept
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: in Richmond Park, there is generally a stock of from
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: forty to fifty red deer. Some stags from the latter
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: are selected every year and sent to Swidlea in order
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: to be hunted by the King's stag hounds. When a
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: stag which has been hunted for three or four seasons
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: is returned to the park to end his days, there
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: is generally more fierce and dangerous than any of the
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: others at a particular season of the year. At that
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: time it is sometimes not safe to approach him, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: the keepers inform me that they have been obliged to
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: fire at them with buckshot when they have been attacked
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: by them. They account for this ferocity by the circumstance
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: of the deer having been much handled and consequently rendered
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: more familiar with and less afraid of, those whom they
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: would naturally shun. Dos are longer lived than bucks. One
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: doe in Richmond Park live to be twenty years old,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: and there are other instances of their having attained the
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: same age. A curious circumstance lately occurred respecting the red
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: deer in the park in question. In the year eighteen
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: twenty five, not a single calf was dropped by any
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: of the hinds, though they had been bred freely the
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: preceding and did the same in the subsequent year. I
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: find an event recorded in the Journal of a Naturalist
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: as having happened in the same year. In regard to cows,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: it is there stated that for many miles round the
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: residence of the author, scarcely any female calves were born.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: This diminution of the usual breed of deer and the
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: increase of sex in another animal is not a little remarkable.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: There is a fine breed of buckhounds in Richmond Park,
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: and their sagacity is very extraordinary in taking the deer.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: According to annual custom, either for the royal hunt or
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: for the fattening paddocks, a stag or a buck which
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: has been previously fixed upon, is ridden out of the
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: herd by two or three of the keepers in succession,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: each of whom is closely followed by a hound, the
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: young dogs only being kept in slips. As soon as
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: the deer has been separated from his companions, the dogs
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: have the requisite signal given to them, and they immediately
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: follow in pursuit. The scene is then highly interesting. A
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: strong deer will afford a very long chase, but when
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: he comes to bay, the dogs generally seize him by
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: the throat or ears. The keepers come up, take him
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: by the horns, and after having strapped his hind and
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: fore legs together, put him into a cart which follows
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: for the purpose, and he is then disposed of as
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: he may be wanted. I have seen an active young
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: keeper throw himself from his horse upon a deer at
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: bay which he has come up to at full gallop,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: and hold his horns till assistants arrived. Some danger, however,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: attends this sport, as when a deer has been hard pressed,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: I have seen him, in more than one instance suddenly
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: turn upon the horsemen and injure the horses, and in
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: one case wound the leg of the horseman. The dogs
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: are so well try, and are so soon made aware
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: which buck is intended to be caught, that they seldom
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: make a mistake, even if the deer regains the herd
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: after having been driven from it, but press him through
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: it till they have again separated him from it. It
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: is well known that when a hard pressed deer tries
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: to adjoin his companions, they endeavor to avoid and get
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: away from him as much as possible, or try to
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: drive him away with their horns. So severe is the
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: chase in Richmond Park in taking deer, especially when the
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: ground is wet, that three or four good horses may
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: be tired by a single horseman in one day's deer taking.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: If each deer is ridden out of the herd and
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: followed till he is taken When dogs are in slips,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: the man who holds them merely rides as near as
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: he can to the person who is endeavoring to single
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: out the deer, and awaits his signal for slipping the dog.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: These dogs, who are a large, rough sort of greyhound,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: very powerful and sagacias, are soon taught not to injure
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: the deer when they come to them. The cry of
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: hold them, made use of by the keepers in urging
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: them forward, seems to be perfectly understood by the dogs.
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  Speaker 4: End of section.
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  Speaker 6: Five Section six of Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine
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  Speaker 6: of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issues sixteen.
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  Speaker 6: of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: of Useful Knowledge, Issues sixteen by Charles Knight. The United States,
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: Remarks on the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: States by William Gore Ouseley, Esquire, Attache to Its Majesty's
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Legation at Washington, Octable, dot London, Rodwell, eighteen thirty two.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: The book before us is rather a rambling one, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: we cannot say that it appears to us to contain
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: much that is new, or that it has been prepared
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: with all the care, even in regard to its merely
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: literary qualities, which ought to have been bestowed on it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: But the work is written in a moderate, fair and
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: manly spirit, and is calculated to beget a very favorable
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: opinion of the general liberality and philanthropy of the author's views.
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: Although it contains some sensible remarks upon Missus Tallip's volumes,
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: which we lately noticed, and also upon a variety of
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: other minor points, the greater portion of it is devoted
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: to an examination of the financial results of the American
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: system of government and the comparison of the burthens which
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: it imposes upon the people, which those which are borne
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: by the inhabitants of England and of France. The settlement
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: of this question appears to be the principal aim of
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: the writer, and he has brought together the tables and
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: estimates of various authorities by whom it has been investigated.
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: In looking at these statements, however, it must be borne
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: in mind that the two countries are differently situated in
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: many other respects, as well as in regard to their
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: political institutions, and the difference between the amount of taxes
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: paid in the one and that paid in the other
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: may arise wholly or in part from circumstances with which
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: the form of the government has really nothing whatever to do.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: It is our duty to mention the circumstance, to point
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: out that any belief that the two countries can be
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: brought to the same point of taxation is somewhat irrational.
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: On the other hand, we can have no hesitation in
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: expressing an opinion that the nearer they are assimilated, the
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: greater will be the amount of public happiness in the
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: more highly taxed country. A wise government will always strive
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: to reduce taxes to the lowest point that is compatible
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: with security against foreign violence, the maintenance of the laws,
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: and the preservation of national credit. A great part of
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: mister Gorewsley's book is made up of extracts from the
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: American Almanac and other recent publications. The following passage, relating
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: to the gold mines which have been lately opened in
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: some of the Southern states, of the Union contains some
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: curious and interesting information, which is also copied from other works,
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: but which is not generally known. These mines have not
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: been worked to any considerable extent for more than about
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: five or six years, or probably much less, and yet
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: many of them are worked upon an extensive scale, and
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: mills for grinding the ore, propelled by water or by stream,
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: are erected in vast numbers. The company of Messius Bistles,
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: which is one of the most considerable, employs about six
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: hundred hands. The whole number of men now employed at
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: the mines in these southern states is at least twenty thousand.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: The weekly value of these mines is estimated at one
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: hundred thousand dollars or more than one million sterling annually.
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: But a small part of the gold is sent to
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: the United States mint by far the larger part is
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: sent to Europe, particularly to Paris. Of their working miners,
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: the greater number are foreigners Germans, Swiss, Swedes, Spaniards, English, Welsh, Scotch,
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: et cetera. There are no less than thirteen different languages
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: spoken at the mines in this state, and men are
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: flocking to the mines from all parts and find ready employment.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: Hundreds of landowners and renters work the mines on their
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: grounds on a small scale, not being able to encounter
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: the expense of much machinery. The state of morals among
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: the miners or laborers is represented to be deplorably bad.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: This may be attributed to the absence of any general
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: organization as yet for the police and regulation of the mines,
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: combined with the usual effects of gold upon the uneducated
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: and needy classes of men, often not the most favorable
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: specimens of their various nations, who generally seek employment in
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: the gold districts. The village of Charlotte in Mecklenburg County
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: is in the immediate vicinity of several of the largest mines.
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: It is increasing rapidly. One interesting fact deserves mention when
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: speaking of the gold mines. There are indubitable evidences that
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: these mines were known and worked by the aboriginal inhabitants
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: or some other people at a remote period. Many pieces
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: of machinery which were used for this purpose have been found.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: Among them are several crucibles of earthenware, and far better
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: than those now in use. Messrs Bistles had tried three
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: of them and found that they lasted twice or three
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: times as long as even the Hessene crucibles, which are
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: the best now made. It is to be regretted that
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: some antiquary has not had an opportunity of at least
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: examining these curious relics, and it is hoped that they
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: will be preserved in future. Notwithstanding the temptation offered by
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: their superior qualities. These gold mines prove that the whole
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: region in which they abound was once under the powerful
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: action of fire. And it is a fact not generally
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: known that the miners who have come from the mines
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: in South America and in Europe pronounced this region to
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: be more abundant gold than any other that has been
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: found on the globe. There is no telling the extent
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: of these mines, but sufficient is known to prove they
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: are of vast extent. Pages one fifty one to one
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: fifty three two. North Carolina. The gold mines commence in
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: Virginia and extend southwest through North Carolina, part of South Carolina, Georgia,
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: and Alabama, and in Tennessee. The chief mines at present
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: are those of North Carolina and Georgia, and of Section six.
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  Speaker 7: Section seven of Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine of
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue sixteen.
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  Speaker 7: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 7: of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: of Useful Knowledge, Issues sixteen by Charles Knight. The Calabrius
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: Calabria during a military residence of three years, etc. In
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: a series of letters by a General officer of the
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: French Army from the original M. S. London, Fingham, Wilson,
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: eighteen thirty two. The Calabrias, which are divided into two provinces,
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: Citre and Ultra, occupied the extremity of the south of Italy,
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: forming a peninsula one hundred and seventy miles in length
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: and varying in breadth from seventy to thirty five miles.
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: The beautiful Mediterranean Sea flows round this peninsula, and a
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: chain of the Apennines intersects it. The summit of these
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: mountains is a vast platform called La Silla, which is
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: admirable for pasture and well provided with farmhouses and villages.
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: The plains washed by the sea would be everywhere most fertile,
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: but they have been neglected and permitted to become swamped
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: and pestilentially unhealthy in many places. A little work has
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: just been published which contains some instructive and amusing information
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: with regard to this part of Italy. This work is
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: the translation of a French volume entitled Letre sur les
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: calabres bar an Officier Franceise, which was published at Paris
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: some twelve or thirteen years since. With the author may
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: have become, we know not, but when he wrote his
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: letters he was nothing more than a subaltern, a clever man,
• 46:07
  Speaker 7: as his little book proves, yet still only a lieutenant
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: of the line. But the translator or publisher appears to
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: consider that the high sounding editions of a general officer
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: of the French army, and from the original ms, are
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: necessary to the success of the book in its English dress.
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: It is to be regretted that a volume which contains
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: much to inform and amuse should be introduced to the
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: English reader with the aid of such useless quackery, For
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: the work is really valuable in itself and requires no
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: such arts to recommend it. During his three years residence,
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: the author of these letters, which were written on the spot,
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: when the scenery and the romantic adventures he was engaged
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: in were fresh and full in his mind, traverse the
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: Collabrias several times in their whole extent, and in pursuit
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: of partisans and brigands, climbed mountains and penetrated into wild
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: glens which for ages had probably never been visited except
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: by the native robber or huntsmen. He saw and described
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: all the great towns and the sites of the ancient
• 47:12
  Speaker 7: cities of Magna Gracia, and his account of the productions
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: and curiosities, manners and customs of these provinces is full
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: and most amusing. We subjoin two or three passages describing
• 47:26
  Speaker 7: the physical character of the country and the manners of
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: its people. The climate of Calabria varies according to the
• 47:33
  Speaker 7: character and elevation of the soil, and is consequently favorable
• 47:37
  Speaker 7: to all sorts of produce. In the plains, sheltered against
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: the north wind, there are found sugar canes, aloes, and
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: date trees, while the pine and birch cover the tops
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: of the mountains. The great variety and richness of the
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: productions of Calabria furnish an abundance of all the necessaries
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: of life. It has grain of every description, wines which
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: might be ready as good as those of Spain and
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: longadoak if the inhabitants had more intelligence and industry, and
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: olive oil in such profusion that it is kept in
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: vast cisterns dug in the earth or in the rock.
• 48:14
  Speaker 7: Great quantities of silkworms, and silkworms of the very best
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: quality are bred here, which, together with the growth of cotton,
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: form a considerable article of commerce. The licorice root grows
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: without cultivation, and in the forests is found a sort
• 48:29
  Speaker 7: of mana which is in great request. Immense droves of
• 48:33
  Speaker 7: horned cattle pass alternately from the rich grazing grounds of
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: the Scilla to the aromatic pasture of the plains, where
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: they remain during the winter. Their flocks are as vast
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: as their herds. Their breed of horses is hardy, active,
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: extremely swift, full of fire, and very numerous. And besides these,
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: the Calabrians have the excellent mule so necessary for a
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: mountainous country, and vast droves of the formidable buffalo, which
• 49:01
  Speaker 7: they tame and employ in labor like an ox. In
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: all parts of Calabria there is a great quantity of
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: game of every description. The sea coasts abound with fish.
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: The sword fish alone supplies food to a part of
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: the inhabitants during several months of the year, and the
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: tunny forms a lucrative branch of commerce. All this ought
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: to produce comfort and opulence, but hardly anything is met
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: with but abject misery. Nature has done everything for the country,
• 49:30
  Speaker 7: but for many ages the vices of the government have
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: marred its prosperity. The condition of the peasantry is most wretched.
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: There is a total want of emulation. The climate and
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: the soil do all the work. Productions of every kind
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: are the spontaneous gifts of nature, without any aid from
• 49:48
  Speaker 7: art and industry. With the exception of a few cities
• 49:52
  Speaker 7: and some towns that are regularly built, all the other
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: inhabited places present the most miserable and disgusting appearance. The
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: whole interior of their houses is a mass of revolting filth.
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: The pigs live familiarly with the inmates. These people have
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: no true principle of religion or morals, Like all ignorant masses.
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: They are superstitious to excess the most atrocious brigand carries
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: in his bosom relics and images of saints, which he
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: invokes at the very moment he is committing the greatest enormities.
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: The Calabrians are capable of being made excellent soldiers from
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: their robust constitutions, their sobriety, activity, and quickness. If these people,
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: isolated as they are from the rest of Europe and
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: intrenched behind impassable mountains, were actuated by a pure spirit
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: of patriotism, political and religious, they would become invincible, and
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: the country they inhabit might be rendered a sure and
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: safe asylum against tyranny. End of section seven.
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  Speaker 3: Section eight of a monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issues sixteen.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 3: of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: of Useful Knowledge, Issues sixteen by Charles Knight, Poems by
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: William Cullen Bryant, London Andrews, eighteen thirty two. Our reasons
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: for noticing and recommending this volume to our readers are manifold.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: It is beautiful in itself. It is written by an American.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: It is one of the best specimens we have seen
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: of the poetical genius of our Transatlantic brethren. It is
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: edited by Washington Irving, the most accomplished prose writer of America,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: and is by him dedicated or rather addressed to Samuel Rogers,
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: the author of the Pleasures of Memory, and who, at
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: an advanced period of life, preserves all the generous glow
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: of youth for letters, and for arts, and for everything
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: connected with the intellectual improvement of mankind. The exhibition of
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: actual specimens of American taste and literature will tend to
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: counteract the mischievous effects of those caricatures of American life
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: and matters with which some authors have of late amused
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: the spleen and prejudice of the British public. It is
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: important to remove the illusion produced by writers of talent who,
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: professing to delineate national peculiarities, truly exaggerate and misrepresent them.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: Regardless and perhaps unconscious that by using ridicule and sarcasm
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: on such subjects, they are renewing antipathies which never had
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: a rational existence, and which years of friendly intercourse had
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: almost anigh, and are detaching from us the sympathies of
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: those who, by descent community of free institutions, though differently
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: modified an identity of language, must naturally be well disposed
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: towards us. During an intimacy of some years standing, says Washington,
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: irving to Samuel Rogers, I have uniformly remarked a liberal
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: interest on your part in the rising character and fortunes
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: of my country, and a kind disposition to promote the
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: success of American talent, whether engaged in literature or the arts.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I am induced, therefore, as a tribute of gratitude, as
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: well as a general testimonial of respect and friendship, to
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: lay before you the present volume, in which, for the
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: first time are collected together the fugitive productions of one
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: of our living poets, whose writings are desieredly popular throughout
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: the United States. This is all as it should be,
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: in relation both to mister Rogers and his friend, and
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: we confess we augur most favorably to the taste of
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: a country throughout which poetry so refined in setiment, and
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: so pure an execution and ornament as that contained in
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: the volume before us, enjoys popularity. We began by recommending
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: mister Bryant's poems. A perusal of the following specimen, as
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: well as one or two that we have lately printed separately,
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: will justify our soul doing. And there are many pieces
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: in the volume of equal originality and beauty, A warm
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: admiration of the works of nature, strong religious feeling towards
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: the great author of these works, a singular happiness of
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: description and a power of clothing his descriptions with moral
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: associations that make them speak to the heart, an independent spirit,
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: and the buoyant aspirations incident to a youthful, a free,
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: and a rising country footnote Washington Irving's dedicatory letter to
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: Rogers into footnote are among the charming characteristics of this
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: American poet. We will only add that the whole, while
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: written in a style elegant enough to please the most fastidious,
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: is simple and intelligible enough for the commonest reader. To
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: a water fowl whither midst falling dewe while glow the
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: heavens with the last steps of day, far through their
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: rosy depths, dost thou pursue thy solitary way. Vainly the
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: fowler's eye might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong.
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: As darkly painted on the crimson sky, thy figure floats
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: along seek'st Thou thy plashy brink of weedy lake, or
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: marge of river wide, or where the rocking billows rise
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: and sink on the chafed ocean side. There is a
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: power whose care teaches thy way along that pathless coast,
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: the desert and illimitable air lone, wandering but not lost.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: All day, thy wings have fann'd at that far height,
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: the cold, thin atmosphere, yet stoop not weary to the
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: welcome land. Though the dark night is near, and soon
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: that toil shall end. Soon, shalt thou find a summer
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: home and rest and scream among thy fellows. Reads shall
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: bend soon o'er thy sheltered nest Thou art gone. The
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: abyss of heaven hath swallowed up thy form, Yet on
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: my heart deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: and shall not soon depart. He who from zone to zone,
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: guides through the boundless guy thy certain flight in the
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: long way that I must read alone will lead my
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: steps all right. End of section eight.
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: Section nine of Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine of
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue sixteen.
• 56:51
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  Speaker 7: the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of
• 57:06
  Speaker 7: Useful Knowledge, Issue sixteen by Charles Knight, India penn and
• 57:13
  Speaker 7: pencil Sketches being the journal of a tour in India
• 57:16
  Speaker 7: by Captain Mundy, late aide de camp Lord Combermere, two
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: volumes octavo. We recommend these two octavo volumes to those
• 57:26
  Speaker 7: of our readers who may be able to obtain the
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: perusal of them. We think that not only great amusement
• 57:32
  Speaker 7: may be derived from Captain Munday's work, but that it
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: supplies more information concerning the parts of our dominions in
• 57:39
  Speaker 7: India that he visited than may be collected from many
• 57:43
  Speaker 7: ponderous volumes in his lively chapters. Indeed, amusement and fun,
• 57:48
  Speaker 7: to use a homely word, go hand in hand with instruction.
• 57:52
  Speaker 7: At the sketch of a human character European or Indian, Hindu,
• 57:56
  Speaker 7: or muscleman, or at the sketch of a scene, is
• 58:00
  Speaker 7: equally at home and happy. And in the first class
• 58:03
  Speaker 7: of his essays he shows so generous and philanthropic a feeling,
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: and in the second so fine a perception and appreciation
• 58:11
  Speaker 7: of the beauties of nature, that he captivates both our
• 58:14
  Speaker 7: affection and our taste. What we admire too, as much
• 58:18
  Speaker 7: as his talent, and this is perhaps generally the inseparable
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: companion of intellect of a superior order, is his fine,
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: cheerfulness of spirit. In his daily life, he is always
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: disposed to make the best of things. He is as
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: joyous in his tent or the equally comfortless bungalow as
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: in the palace. Polanquins or the back of an elephant.
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: Arabians or ragged coolies are all the same to him. Forward,
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: he goes on his journey, only telling you now and
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: then that the thermometer is nearly at one hundred degrees,
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: or that it is reigning deluges, And he looks for
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: and finds amusement or interest of some kind or other
• 58:57
  Speaker 7: wherever he moves. At one time we find him hunting
• 59:00
  Speaker 7: the antelope with leopards, at another bringing down partridges with
• 59:04
  Speaker 7: a manton. Here seeing a tiger fighting with the rhinoceros.
• 59:09
  Speaker 7: There himself in deadly conflict with the jungle tiger. Now
• 59:13
  Speaker 7: macadamizing or making roads at Simla on the steps of
• 59:17
  Speaker 7: the Himalayan mountains, now smoking his hookah at Calcutta. At
• 59:22
  Speaker 7: his professional duties, he is as cheerful as at his sports,
• 59:26
  Speaker 7: and one cannot help perceiving he is in possession of
• 59:29
  Speaker 7: that valuable but very attainable secret of making a pleasure
• 59:33
  Speaker 7: of business. The following piece of practical philosophy, or how
• 59:37
  Speaker 7: to make the best of a bad lodging, is a
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: lesson for all the classes. The elevation of Simla above
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: the sea is seven thou eight hundred feet, and during
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: the month of May, I find the thermometer was never
• 59:51
  Speaker 7: higher than seventy three degrees or lower than fifty five
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: degrees in my garret, this apartment occupied by me during
• 59:59
  Speaker 7: our stay in the Life Hills, was pervious both to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 7: heat and cold, being in fact of that elevated character
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: which in England is usually devoted to cheeses or apples
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 7: and onions, and forming the interval between the ceiling of
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: the dining room and the wooden pent roof of the house,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: which descending in a slope quite to the floor, only
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 7: admitted of my standing upright in the center. Though this
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 7: cannoth pea of planks was lined with whitewashed canvas, it
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 7: by no means excluded the reins so peremptorily as I,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 7: not being an amphibious animal, could have wished. And during
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 7: some of the grand storms, the hailstones rattled with such
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 7: stunning effect upon the drum like roof that the echoes
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 7: sung in my ears for a week. After this, my
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 7: exalted dormitory was rendered accessible by a wooden ladder. But
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 7: spite of its sundry des agrement, I thanked my stars
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 7: in whose near neighborhood I was, for my luck in
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 7: getting any shelter at all without the trouble of building
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 7: in the present crowded state of Semla. I enjoyed a
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 7: splendid view from my windows. I beg pardon window and
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 7: the luxury of privacy except at night when the rat
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 7: sustained an eternal carnival kept me in much the same
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 7: state as Whittington during his first week in London. I
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 7: soon grew tired of bumping my head against the roof
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 7: in pursuit of these four footed Pindaris, and at length
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 7: became callous to their nocturnal orgies and kept a cat.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 7: Even a hair breadth escaped from a midnight robber in
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: no way interrupts the captain's joyous mood. I retired to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 7: my tent this evening pretty well knocked up, and during
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 7: the night had an adventure which might have terminated with
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 7: more loss to myself had I slept sounder. My bed.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 7: A low canopy or four feet was in one corner
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 7: of the tent, close to a door, and I awoke
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 7: several times from a feverish doze, fancying I heard something
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 7: moving in my tent, but could not discover anything, though
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 7: a cherrengue or little Indian lamp was burning on the table.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 7: I therefore again wooed the balmy power and slept at length,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 7: just as the iron tongue of midnight had told twelve.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 7: For I had looked at my watch five minutes before
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: and replaced it under my pillow. I was awakened by
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: a rustling sound under my head, and half opening my
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: eyes without changing my position, I saw a hideous black
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 7: face within a foot of mine, and the owner of
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 7: this index of a cutthroat or at least cut purse disposition.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: Kneeling on the carpet with one hand under my pillow
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: and the other grasping not a dagger but the door post.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: Still without moving my body and with half closed eyes,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: I gently stole my right hand to a boar spear,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: which at night was always placed between my bed and
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 7: the wall, And as soon as I had clutched it,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 7: made a rapid and violent movement in order to wrench
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 7: it from its place and try the virtue of its
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: point upon the intruder's body. But I wrenched in vain.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 7: Fortunately for the robber, my bearer, in placing the weapon
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: in its usual recess, had forced the point into the
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 7: top of the tent and the butt into the ground
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 7: so firmly that I failed to extract it at the
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 7: first effort, and my visitor, alarmed by the movement, started
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: upon his feet and rushed through the door. I had
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 7: time to see that he was perfectly naked, with the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 7: exception of a black blanket twisted around his loins, and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 7: that he had already stowed away in his cloth, my candlesticks,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 7: and my dressing case, which latter contained letters, keys, money,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 7: and other valuables. I had also leisure in that brief
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 7: space to judge from the size of the arm extended
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: to my bed that the bearer was more formed for
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 7: activity than strength, and by his grizzled beard, that he
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 7: was rather old than young. I therefore sprung from my bed, and,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 7: darting through the perdar of the inner door, seized him
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: by the cumberbund just as he was passing the outer entrance.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 7: The cloth, however, being loose, gave way, and ere I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 7: could confirm my grasp, he snatched it from my hand,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 7: tearing away my thumb nail down to the quick. In
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 7: his anxiety to escape, he stumbled through the outer perdar,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 7: and the much esteemed dressing case fell out of his
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 7: loosened zone. I was so close at his heels that
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 7: he could not recover it, and, jumping over the tent ropes, which,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 7: doubtless the road calculated would trip me up, he ran
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 7: toward the road I was in such a fury that
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 7: forgetting my bare feet I gave chase vociferating lustily, chore, chore, thief, thief,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 7: But was soon brought up by some sharp stones, just
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 7: in time to see my rascal, by the faint light
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 7: of the room, through the thick foliage overhead, jump upon
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 7: a horse standing unheld near the road, and dashed down
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 7: the path at full speed, his black blanket flying in
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 7: the wind. What would I have given for my double
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 7: barreled joe At that moment, as he and his steed
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 7: went clattering along the rocky forest road, I thought of
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 7: the black huntsmen of the Hearts, or the Earl King.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 7: Returning to my tent, I solaced myself by abusing my servants,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 7: who were just rubbing their eyes and stirring themselves, and
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  Speaker 7: by threatening the terrified sepoy sentry with the court martial.
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  Speaker 7: My trunks at night were always placed outside the tent
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  Speaker 7: under the sentry's eye. The robber therefore must have made
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  Speaker 7: his entry on the opposite side, and he must have
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  Speaker 7: been an adept in his vocation. As four or five
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  Speaker 7: servants were sleeping between the connaughts. The poor devil did
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  Speaker 7: not get much booty for his trouble, having only secured
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  Speaker 7: a razor, a pot of pomatum, which will serve to
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  Speaker 7: lubricate his person for his next exploit, and the candlesticks, which,
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  Speaker 7: on closer inspection, will prove to him the truth of
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  Speaker 7: the axiom that all is not gold that glitters, nor
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  Speaker 7: even silver. The next morning, on relay my adventure, I
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  Speaker 7: was told that I was fortunate in having escaped cold steel,
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  Speaker 7: and many more comfortable instances were recited of the robbed
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  Speaker 7: being stabbed in attempting to secure the robber. But it
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  Speaker 7: is in his account of Indian hunting with which the
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  Speaker 7: volumes abound, and which are truly excellent, the Captain Mundy
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  Speaker 7: gives full way to his buoyant spirit and hilarity. And
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  Speaker 7: as the animal pursued is not the timid hare or
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  Speaker 7: the paltry fox, but generally the cruel, destructive and formidable tiger,
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  Speaker 7: and as there is both adventure and danger, we can
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  Speaker 7: frequently follow him in these hunts with great interest. The
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  Speaker 7: following account of the sagacity of an elephant in a
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  Speaker 7: lion hunt must conclude our extracts. A lion had charged
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  Speaker 7: my friend's elephant, and he, having wounded the lion was
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  Speaker 7: in the act of leaning forward in order to fire
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  Speaker 7: another shot, when the front of the Howdah elephant's castle
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  Speaker 7: suddenly gave way, and he was precipitated over the head
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  Speaker 7: of the elephant into the very jaws of the furious beast.
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  Speaker 7: The lion, though severely hurt, immediately seized him and would
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  Speaker 7: doubtless shortly have put a fatal termination to the conflict,
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  Speaker 7: had not the elephant urged by the mahout. The driver,
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  Speaker 7: who sits on the elephant's neck, stepped forward, though greatly alarmed,
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  Speaker 7: and grasping in her trunk, the top of a young tree,
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  Speaker 7: bent it down hard against the loins of the lion,
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  Speaker 7: and thus forced the tortured animal to quit his hold.
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  Speaker 7: My friend's life was thus preserved, but his arm was
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  Speaker 7: broken in two places, and he was severely clawed on
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  Speaker 7: the breast and shoulders. The lion was afterwards slain by
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  Speaker 7: the other sportsman who came up. Notes. A coolie is
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  Speaker 7: a rough Indian pony. Pindaris an immense association of robbers
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  Speaker 7: that a few years ago devastated India. They had been
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  Speaker 7: suppressed by the British cannots. The tents in India have
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  Speaker 7: double flies the outer cannot or wall, forming a veranda
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  Speaker 7: of some four feet wide round the interior pavilion pomatum.
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  Speaker 7: Indian thieves oil their naked bodies to render their seizure difficulty.
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  Speaker 7: End of section nine. End of monthly supplement of The Penny,
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  Speaker 7: Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,
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  Speaker 7: Issues sixteen, by Charles Knight,