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rian, has recounted these experiences. This was, according to 

 him, a very ingenious thing, permitting to make known all that 

 which one would at a great distance, in little time for example, 

 from Paris to Rome in three or four hours and this even with- 



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out the news being given out in all the space between the two 

 cities. This preparation, so paradoxical and so chimeric in ap- 

 pearance, was executed in a little stretch of country, once in pres- 

 ence of monseigneur and once in presence of madame. The secret 

 consisted in disposing, in several consecutive posts, some young 

 men who, by some long-view telescopes, having perceived cer- 



