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PGCJ.767.022
14 Mar 1767:21 (166)
A description of two curious clocks, intended as a present
from the East-India Company, to the emperor of China, made
by English artists. . . Over the lady's head, supported by a
small fluted pillar (no bigger than quill) is a double
umbrella, under the largest of which a bell is fixed, at a
considerable distance from the clock, and seems to have no
connection with it, but from which a communication is
secretly conveyed to a hammer that regularly strikes the
hour;
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