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Excerpt from A History of Inventions and Discoveries, Vol. 2 of 4 Those round calcareous excrescences found both in the bodies and shells of several kinds of sh

Excerpt from History of Inventions and Discoveries, Vol. 1 of 4 That the arts had their rise in the East, and-that they were conveyed thence to' the Greeks, and

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