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… Which is burnt a whole Territory; against which Water was unavaileable; which could never be extinguish’d, but with Stones, Cloaths, Linnen, and Wollen, and other dry Materials cast thereon. Tacitus words run thus. The City of the Inhoanians in Germany, conferdate with us (saith he) was afflicted with a sudden disaster. For fires issuing out of the Earth,…
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