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He pockets the money given him to repair an embankment and thus inundates a province, and he deplores the land lost to the cultivator of the soil." Du Halde tells us that "the first Chinese cannon were cast under the directions of Père Verbiest in 1682, who blest the cannon, and gave to each the name of a saint." "A female saint!" says Huc.
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