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Two other demands of this kind met the same fate. There was another remarkable incident which occurred in this battle so full of gallant deeds. The enemy front was covered by some high ground on which were redouts and redans and in particular, a crenelated fort armed with 80 guns.
For an invalid, Aix-la-Chapelle is a mineral fountain warm, cold, irony, and sulfurous; for the tourist, it is a place for redouts and concerts; for the pilgrim, the place of relics, where the gown of the Virgin Mary, the blood of Jesus, the cloth which enveloped the head of John the Baptist after his decapitation, are exhibited every seven years; for the antiquarian, it is a noble abbey of "filles
But he withdrew for the sacred moment of seeing the Land of Promise he was newly discovering the Long Island shore; the grass-clad redouts at Fort Wadsworth; the vast pile of New York sky-scrapers, standing in a mist like an enormous burned forest. "Singer Tower.... Butterick Building," he murmured, as they proceeded toward their dock.
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