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THE GERMAN FLAY AT VENICE. 



tsar-clocks, fand-veffels, and fun-dials ; but not to men- 

 tion their bulky rlze, their inconvenience and expen- 

 firexiefs, they were extremely defective and uncertain. 



— I ffaould think, I fhould think, that a thing fo 

 -cafily earned about in the pocket, and that is fo exact 

 in its notices, miift be an excellent companion on long 

 jsssmles, mull be of equal utility both to the traveller 

 sm4 the merchant. , 



I am glad to fee that thou art fo quick at gueffing 

 the utility of things, which to my great furprize thou 

 fcmd ffill unacquainted with. — Who art thou then ? 

 Of what epocha doft thou pretend to be ? 



Aye, what epocha ! Why art thou fo curious ? 

 Tell me firft, who invented this ? 



likewife a German. 



A noble race ! It deferves my praife. A german I 



— Who would have thought it of thofe blue-eyed bar- 

 ? • — But let it be I — Now that I have once be-r 



to qneftion thee, my old motto comes into my 

 fmu4 : Never turn about at half-way. — Thou haft yet 

 aaaodier thing, that imitated thunder and lightning in 

 mwhtmc % and, heaven knows how, even ftruck into 

 that door, though at fo great a diftance. What name 

 dofttLcru give it ? 



And the nature of it ? The manner whereby it pro- 

 duces this effect: ? 



The German, who was now once entered into con^ 

 verfation, took out the other piftol, fhewed him all, 

 explained to him its contraction, the quality of the 

 its force in great and little ; and, in fhort, 



gave 



