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rage to acts of desperation, or to the dropping dead with stagnation, &c. &c. &c. Though so distinct to me by sympathy I have never caught the inward vision thereof, not even by glimpse ; but the assassins pretend, when heated, that it becomes luminous and visible to them for some yards from the loom, as a weakish rainbow, and shews the colours according to the nature of the gazes from which it is formed, or wherewith the object is impregnated : as green for the copper-streams or threads, red for the iron, white for the spermatic animal-seminal, &c.

t. Shews the situation of the repeaters, or active worriers, when such were employed during the active exertions so long made to worry me down.

u. One of the assassins called by the

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