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flies by the “magnetick virtue” of certain minerals in the ground of
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of ministers. He had been treated with tenderness by the king, but held in low understanding. These estates were wholly different to the land as a whole, being "a most beautiful country, with houses neatly built, fields enclosed, containing vineyards, corn-grounds and meadows". However Munodi
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just 5 days later, having drifted south-south-east down a chain of small rocky islands
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