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The Philosophers of the nineteenth century have fortunately rediscovered the Mermaid in the north of Scotland! Hitherto, wonderful things used to be confined to barbarous regions and ignorant ages. Arist. de Mirand. Strabo, I. 2. p. 68. Plin. I. 6. c. 29. Strabo, I. 17. p. 560, 561. Strab. I. 17. p. 549. Plin. I. 6. c. 23. Id. I. 12. c. 18. Id. I. 2. c. 67. Ziphilin. in vit. Traj.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

It is not only the grandest application of electrical power, but one of the most remarkable feats in an age when romance has become science, and science has become romance. The electric "trembling bell," now in common use, was first invented by John Mirand in 1850.

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Plin. I. 6. c. 31. Plin. I. 4. c. 22. Eratosth. ap. Strab. I. 1. p. 26. Plin. I. 6. c. 29. The miles here used are three to the league; but the league of the text is nearly equal to four English miles, and the assumed distance of these two ports 140 of our miles E. Strab. I. 17. p. 560. Plin. I. 6. c. 29. Diod. Sic. I. 4. c. 4. Strab. I. 1. p. 26. Kings, I. 9. Chron. Herodot. Arist. de Mirand.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time