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Scientific American, Vol. 25, No. 21 (1871) (1871)

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own a gentle incline. But it matters little which explana. total of $2,030,000, of which $300,000 was in specie. ful measurement; the mean of three closely accordant deter- tion of the three we accept as the most plausible. The In an old iron safe, which was left outside the vault, was minations… … presented to Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, a set of twen- pillars, which gave way and let it fall in ruins, and should ments rose they gradually faded away like a dissolving cloud, ty-three volumes of reports and documents relating to the yet make a boast of being fireproof, is a piece of irony…

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