1337, A.D. The first comet described with astronomical precision.

The first diving bell we read of was a very large kettle suspended by
ropes with the mouth downwards, and planks fixed in the middle of its
concavity. Two Greeks at Toledo in 1583, made an experiment with it
before Charles V. They descended in it with a lighted candle to a great
depth.

The Odyssey was written upon the skin of a serpent.

Formerly pennies were marked with a double cross and crease, so that it
might easily be broken into two or four parts.

HALBERT H.

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THE SKETCH-BOOK

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SKETCH OF THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS.

_By an officer engaged._