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    Langton said very well to me afterwards, that he could repeat Johnson’s conversation before dinner, as Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of The Natural History of Iceland, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:—

    ‘CHAP. LXXII. Concerning snakes.

    ‘There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.’

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