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At noon the wind fell, and was very calm, at which time our latitude observed was 17 degrees 36 minutes 38 seconds.

These, the writer observes, were a species of divination practised in the earlier ages of Christianity, and consisted in casually opening the Holy Scriptures, and from the words which first presented themselves deducing the future lot of the inquirer.

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