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Title: Forrester's pictorial miscellany for the family circle
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Forrester, Mark, ed Forrester, Mark
Subjects: Juvenile literature (American) Natural history Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) Aztec children
Publisher: Boston, F. & G.C. Rand

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or to their own, especially in a game of chess. He played with thousands in Europe and America, and in thegreat majority of cases was successful with even the most distin-guished players. There was an amusing incident between him andNapoleon. The Emperor, being a little mischievous as well asplayful, made an unlawful move; the Automaton gravely shook hishead and replaced the man. Things went well for a little whiletill Napoleon made another mis-move, then the Automaton indig-nantly swept the men from the board, and refused to play any more. After a while it turned out that there was a very small man con-cealed inside, among the machinery. The man in charge wouldopen one side of the machine, and then the other, and by means ofsome ingenious arrangement the man would succeed in escapingfrom one side to the other. When all was ready he would take his DECEPTIONS. 275 position so that he could see the chess-board, and talk and actthrough the Automaton. The only mystery now is, how he could
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so long avoid detection, and how he could beat the greatest chess-players in the world. 276 PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. National Monument to Washington. On the opposite page is an accurate view of the monument toWashington, now being erected at Washington city. It stands onthe banks of the Potomac river, west of the capitol, and about mid-way between it and the Presidents house. The most prominent and imposing object of the proposed colossalstructure will be the obelisk shaft, rising from the centre to the heightof six hundred feet, seventy feet square at the base, and forty at thetop. Around this shaft, elevated on a terrace, or platform, twentyfeet high and three hundred feet square, is to be erected a vast ro-tunda, supported by thirty massive columns, of twelve feet diameter,and forty-five feet high ; enclosing a gallery fifty feet wide, sixty feethigh, and five hundred feet in circumference. Above the colonnadewill be an entablature twenty feet high, surmounted by a balustradefifteen f

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