Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 333
losion in Trenton, thirty miles away, he mightbe believed, although there would be somedoubt as to his powers of imagination. If, how-ever, he should make the same assertion of anexplosion in Wheeling, West Virginia, threehundred miles away, all doubts of his accuracyand of his imaginative powers… … XSb -- ^> three thousand miles away, he would receiv.e apitying smile, and his listener would silentlywalk away. Yet just this last marvelous thingwas true of those who, on the island of Rodri-guez, over toward Madagascar, two thousandnine hundred and sixty-eight miles away, heardclearly and…
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