. !ching. ary which ered by pa o day when the ade to the world, that . n are born free and equal— . fleeted with the immortal memories .;1 arson, Hancock, Adams, Franklin, Living ston, and a host of others. To us it is tho day of all days—and should never be any other than a nationejubilee, in which every American voice should be raised in praise. There is something glorious in that day. because •it is associated with deeds and virtues tho' noblest and the best, because it reminds us of the great and good soul of humanity, when that soul down trodden and oppressed by the iron heels of power, rose up in the strength which God had even it, and strewed the hills and vallies with the blood of despotism,---and it is glorious be cause it reminds us of our present situation, ' made so, by the glorious men of the revolution, who, shoulder to shoulder, and heart to heart; battled in the days of " 76," and poured out a bloody sacrifice, that we might now enjoy the blessings of our present day. Though we are not by any means venerable, we have lived long enough to see a great dimi nution of interest, in this part of the world, in celebrating the national festival. It is the only one that is acknowledged throughout the length and breadth of the land. In some places it is still duly honored, but, alas ! Allentown has sadly fallen off in this respect, a fact which is to be deeply regretted. Since the above was put in type, we have been informed that our citizens arc awakening from their lethargy, and arc now busily engaged in making arrangements to celebrate the day in a patriotic and spirited manner. The whole fire department will be out, as well as the mili- tarp. One of the most pleasing features of the celebration will be the parade of the Veterans of 1812. These old soldiers, tottering with age, ought not to pass through our streets with out exciting feelings of gratitude in the bosoms of the rising generation. Patriotic orations will be delivered by eminent speakers in lie after noon in the Court House Lawn, and a grand pyrotechnic display will take place in the evening. By reference to our advertising columns it n•ill be seen that a celebration is also to take plade at CataSauqua. We are now in the midst of the lovliest part of the year,—the fields, the gardens, the fruit trees and shrubbery,' in short, everything is clothed in verdure, and the air pregnant with an odoriferous scent. Truly, a more lovely place than our beautiful Allentown, can not be desired, and we have often wondered, why it is, that strangers from the large cities do not more frequently conic among us during the warm summer months. We have within half a mile of our Borough, one of the largest and most beautiful springs in the State, with water pure and limpid as crystal. The scenery around us is indeed picturesque and grand, and to strang. els cannot fail to elicit feelings of satisfaction A ppOillt meat. Gov. Pollock has appointed our old friend, JosErn DErrniat, of this Borotigh, Aid to his Excellency, with the rank of Lieut. Colonel.. This is decidedly a good appointment. lle will bear his honors with becoming dignity, and should an emergency arise to call him to the field, the Governor will find in Col. Dietrich, a true heart and strong arm to defend - the right. We congratulate the Colonel on his ,promotion, and the Governor on his good fortune in select ing a gentleman so eminently worthy of his confidence. On Saturday afternoon last, Mr. CnAttu:B DESIMER., of Lowhill township, came to his death in a most shocking.manner. Ile came to town In the forenoon with a four-horse team for the purpose of procuring a load of lumber. After dinner he started for home, and when in the vicinity of the residence of Mr. John Kralzer, in South Whitehall, he attempted to get from the wagon, but in so doing made a mis-step and fell, so that one of the hind wheels passed almost lengthways over his face, com pletely crushing his . head, and causing instant death. lle was , about :15 years of age, and leaves a bereaved widow and four children to niourn the loss of their protector. Alas !-Ilow true, that " in the midst of life we are in death." Corner Stone Laying: The corner stone of the new German Luther an St. Paul's Church, at this place, will be laic on Sunday next. Addresses will be delivery in the morning and afternoon by a number o eminent .clergypien. The canal boat " Clara," belonging to Mauch Chunk, Was - carried over the Lehigh dam, at Easton, on Fatty morning, in consequence of the flood in the river, and two mein and one boy, who were on board, were drowned. Agricultural Journal We have teceived from the publisher— Wm. D. Cooke, Esq., Raleigh, N. 0., three numbers of the " Carolina Cultivator," an ag ricnitural periodical of rare' merit, which he has started in North Carolina. It is a neatly printed journal, tilled With judiciously selected matter, valuable contributions and instructive editorials, making up one of the very best ag ricultural Works within our knowledge. We trust that an enterprise promising so much good to the agricultural and mechanical inter ests of the State, will he liberally sustained by the people of North' Carolina. • • railed on he telmi 1311123 discipline nlivehing PENNSYLVANIA FARM JOURNAL.--The. .Tune number of this excellent agricultural publica .tion, sustains the high reputation it bears among farmers, and proves that it is fully worthy of the patronage it receives from that class of our industrial population. Thu mass of information it contains is invaluable. MIMI Ile," stir= the town late visit icy will, s and our I=l Summer Droww•nedl. PRICES OF PRODUCE IN NEW YanK.—Since our last paper, flour has declined slightly in price. Common to good State sold at $lO to $lO.lB per barrel. Rye flour, $8.75 to $B.Bl per barrel. Corn meal, $5.12 to $5.37 per barrel. Wheat sold at from $2.37 up to $2.80 for the various qualities, western red being the lowest on the list and white Genesee the highest. Rye is scarce, and has been as high ns $1.75 per bushel. Oats are unchanged in price. Corn sold at from $l.OB to 1.18 per bushel. Country mess beef, new, sold at $10.25 to $12.50 ; re-packed Chicago, Indiana, &c., $15.23 to $15.75. Beef hams, $l6 to $2O per barrel. First quality beef cattle sold at 13 to 'l3l cents per pound ; medium, 12 to I% cents ; poorest 11 to 11i cents. In swine, live weight, the prices were 5i to 6 cents per pound. In the retail market meat is still higb, and main tains the same inordinate rate, notwithstanding the reduced price of cattle. The butchers are always ready to raise the price of meat when cattle are high, but not- so willing to reduce when it comes down again. Vegetables are abundant and as cheap as can be expected. New potatoes are in from Charleston and Ha vana and Bermuda, and are very fine for so early in the season. They sell at 50 cents per half peck. Strawberries have been selling at ten cents the basket, and cherries at fifteen cents per pound. Eggs sell at 9 for 12 cents. and butter at 25 to 31 cents per pound. Green peas 31 cents per peck. LATEST FORE MN NEWS.--The steamship Afri ca arrived at Halifax, on Tuesday, with advices from Europe one week later. The Vienna Con ferences are to be reopened. A secret expedi tion is in preparation in the Crimea. The siege of Sebastopol remains unchanged, and the French commander, Pelissier, is to comtemplate an attack upon the Russians in the field. The latest engagement wis before the Flag Staff battery, in which the French had succeeded in destroying some important Russian works. In the British House of Commons, the motion of a want of confidence in the Ministry failed. The reopening of the Vienna Conferences was proposed by Austria. The preliminary meet ings had taken place in Vienna, between repre sentatives of the Allies. Austria opens with a fresh plan to arrange the disputed third point. A spirited engagement took place on the right attack of the Allies on the night of the 10th, in which the loss was considerable. It was repeated on the 11th. On the 12:th the Russians made a sortie against the left attack. The Russians charged up the British trenches, and some leaped over the parapets and were bayoneted. The loss was severe. The British lost a captain, and over 100 men were put hors du combat. General Pellissier telegraphs on the 2.41.11, that a very lively combat had occurred in front of his most important position, which lasted all the previous night. He says—" We obtained complete success. The Russian loss is enormous, and ours has been considerable." The Patrur gives further particulars, and states that the French attacked the Russian entrenched camp, near Quarantine Bastion, on the night of the 22d, and again on the 23d, when it was carried by assault. SUDDEN Dc.vrti.---A man named Lucas, mid dle aged, died in West Chester on Monday week, suddenly. Ilis symptoms and suflivings indicated something like an inflamation of bow . - els ;, but still the mystery of the case led to a post modem examination of the body, when it was found that his death arose from ulceration of the bowels, caused by the lodgment of a date seed that had probably been swallowed some weeks if not months before. The date seed is long and slender, hard and indigestible. Seri ous results from swallowing the stones of fruit; cherry, plum, &c.—arc not uncommon. Chil dren are sometimesin the practice of swallow ing the stones of cherries. Generally they pass off, but every medical man is familiar with the serious if not fatal consequence. The fatal ef fects from the date seed in the above case, aflitrds a fit occasion for cautioning our readers against the evil practices alluded to.—Register. PAYMENT SUSPENDED.—The Lancaster Sav ings Institution closed its doors on Monday last, in consequence of the discovery that the Treasurer, Charles Boughter, was a defaulter to a very heavyitmount—stated at from•s2Bo,- 000 to $300,000. He was committed to prison on the charge of embezzlement. Property and stocks, valued at $lOO,OOO, have been obtained from the defaulting Treasurer. His bail is held for $20,000.--The capital stock of the Institu tion is $50,000 ; and at the last annual state ment, it had upwards of 8700,000 on deposit. DoN'T RuAn Tun PAPERS.--TllO man, in Michigan, who walked 20 miles to town, to see an eclipse, gave no better evidence.of want of intelligence; than those persons who neglect to prepay their postage, and as a consequence, have their names posted up in the different Post Offices of the country, thus publishing-their ig norance to the world, and proving, conclusive ly, that they do not " read the papers." MARvEm.otts.—One Loring Pierce, of Buf falo. who has been in' that city since 1815, has superintended the burial of twenty-six thousand persons. The Buflhlo Courier says : " Mr. Pierce has never been absent from the city more than a week at once, had has consign ed to their narrow home, nearly twenty-six thousand persons,—more than 4ny other sexton in New York, if not in the world." DEATIT OF JIM TITERS, TUE C,LOWIC—We learn from the Elmira (N. Y.) Advertiser, that Jim Myers, the noted clown of Myers & Madi gan, was killed while performing on the slack rope, at Geneva, on Saturday last. It appears the iron ring to which the rope was fastened gave way, in consequence of which he was pre cipitated to the ground and his brains dished out. New Jersey lucusts have been turned o a protltable'account in making soap. Freaks of Lightning. On the 2d inst., lightning, in a ball of fire, descended into the chimney of Capt. David Up ton's houie on Great Chebeague island, Maine, and demolished it down to the oven, scattering the bricks, of course, very freely, and doing such other damage as Capt. Daniel Stowell de scribes in the Portland Advertiser. It is curious and interesting account of freaks, which it is safer to read than to witness : " The family of six persons were at supper, and their escape with theft• lives is a miracle.— Old Mrs. Upton's right arm is cut to the bone above the elbow, and she is otherwise badly bruised. Her grand-daughter, Marietta Hamil ton, six years old is so bruised as to be purple from the hips to the feet, and is in a precarknis condition. David Upton, jr., is badly bruised about the head and face. Ilis child in his arms was unhurt ; also his wife standing near, and old Mr. Upton, likewise unhurt. But the effects of the lightning about the premises is astonishing. Old Mr. Upton was eating a bowl of bread and milk, with one hand upon the bowl, the other holding the spoon,— the bowl was broken in his hand, and the spoon has not been found. Old Mrs. Upton had a cup of tea in der hand, and when she came to her self she was partly under the table, with a piece of the cup in her hand and herself covered with the wreck of the chimney among which was a piece of timber, from the front of the fire place, eight feet long With a flat bar of iron of the same length attached. The grand-daughter was thrown from her seat at the table to near the fire-place and was literally covered with bricks and mortar. Nearly every article of crockery in the house, two clocks, three looking glasses, and two old-fashioned oak tables in the kitchen, are smashed. The chair in which old Mrs. Upton was sitting was broken into twen ty-eight pieces—every chair in the kitchen was broken. Every partition in the house was re. moved from its pcsition and more or less s tered The fluid seems to live gone through the )ottont of a cooking stove sitting in the kitche fire-place, leaving a hole as if made by a shot four inches in (howler, taking drone leg of the stove, then entering the cellar through the floor, leaving a hole large enough fin• a man to pass. The sills of the house on the south side and east end were sundered and thrown off under- pining, so that that side and end hung suspe ed from the roof. The arch in the cellar ma ing the foundation of the chimney, which ik of stone masonry, two feet thick, were asunderin four different places. The fluid seems to have' passed ofrthrough the northeast and southeast corners of the cellar wall : the wall, built of stone, two feet wide by one thick; lnih• flat in masonry, being severed in two places from to to bottom, the line of separation being straigh nna l well defined. Here the stones are blacken ed as if by powder. The hoops of one barrel of molasses, two soap barrels and one keg were all but off—a stone jar sitting on a board over one of these barrels, was severed horizontally, and the hot- om pait unmoved, the top being eakied off. Every window sash Ludic house is complete y demolished, excepting one in the west chain ber. Here there is a square of glass with a space cut out as if by the point of a diamond, ust the size of a brick—two inches by eigh showing that n brick had been projecte , through it 'quick as lightning.' Five doors i he lower part of the house were shattered to Ucces. A large tight trunk filled with fine clothing, &c., was locked and apparently unin jured outwardly, yet on being opened, the soo rom the chimney lay half an inch thick over he contents, and sifted through in every direc- on. Tin pans of milk on a shelf in the cellar crc unharmed, yet some empty pans, one within the other, on the same shelf were broken p. The fluid passed throiigh eight difreren places in the body of the house, besides those already described DID IT IN Crnmen.—On Sunday, the 20th ult., a respectable citizen went to church in Cleveland, Ohio, and seated himself in a pew without inquiring to whom it belonged. The owner came in, and finding his seat thtis occu pied, went out again, but - soon returned, and pulling out a pistol, presented it at the intru der's breast, and compelled him, by threats, to vacate the seat. He has since been arrested. A GIGANTIC TREE.--PIC clipper ship Thomas Watson arrived at Nevi York from San Fran cisco last week having on board the bark of " Washingtonea Gigantea," the largest tree in the known world. The tree was 31 feet in di ameter at the base, (or nearly 100 feet in cir cumference,) 363 feet in height, and 160 feet to the first limb. The bark has been taken off to the height of 116 feet, at which point the di ameter is 15 feet 0 inches. The bark is one foot six inches at the base, and gradually ta pers out toward the top to two or three inches. OLD FASHION Ram - ED.—Elegantly dressed ladies are seen on the fashionable promenades in Philadelphia, with the old fashioned hoops in the skirts of their dresses. Of course the next step will be, to revive the antiquated English custom of wearing the points of shoes 'so long that they will have to be looped up at the knee. THE QDDER or ODD FELLOWS.—In Pennsyl vania, there are 504 Lodges of this Order.-- During the year ending April last, the receipts were 8237,934 ; and the total amount paid for the relief of Brothers, was 130,461. The num ber of initiations, was 5,203 ; deaths, 581. Total number of members 40,117. BREACIT OF Pnomisit—Catherine Withers, a comely lass in her teens, recovered the nice ittle sum of $lBOO from Isaac Coover, a gay deceiver, who promised to marry her and didn't, in a case of breach of promise tried last week, before the Court of Common Pleas, in Lancas- ter county. 117'The population of Dayton, Ohio, is 21,000. (Mg nub ero.6 la•An Agricultural Society has been formed in Lebanon county. [a - Nearly six million bushels of salt, were made at the Salt Works of Onondaga Co., N. Y., last year. 9' A CHANCE FOR A PURCITASER.—The Maine Line of Public works is to be sold at the Merchant's Exchange in Philadelphia, on the 'evening of the 24th of July next. DJ Openand ventilate your cellar ; it is / a. sanitary measure which may save you a I fig, doctor's bill and will tend to preserve your po tatoes, if closely packed, and other esculen s. 1:all'op}; Trrxr'LL ROT —A wareho e in Rochester, N. Y., has 2000 bushels of p atoes, which the owners refuse to sell at present prices. , 1:11Vooden wheels made of kiln dried red ceder, with cast iron liPbs and steel tires, have been in use on the Camden and Amboy Rail road, N. J., for six years. naNEUIIALGIA.—The application of 'towels, wrung out in hot water, to the forehead and temples, is a speedy and efficacious remedy for headache arising from neuralgic affection. l' - 'TtTE NATIVE AMERICAN State Convention, which met at Harrisburg on Thursday, unani mously nominated Kimber Cleaver as the can didatd of the open organisation ' Americans" for Canal Commissioner. ID - Somebody says that hair is an excellent manure. Perhaps this explains its application of late, in the shape of moustaches, to cabbage heads and turnip tops. It is to be hoped that a plentiful crop of brains will be the result. ll In London, a young man was recently sentenced to 4 months' imprisonment for oflitr ing forged cheeks. Before his term of confine ment is up, he will come into possession of a fortune of $lOO,OOO, but will, nevertheless, be still liable to be tried on other charges. fa - A. new counterfeit, of the denomination of $l9, on the Bank of North America, Phila delphia, has been put in in circulation. The letters arc B. C., the signatures good. and the whole appearance of the note calcula i i h i , deceive. Barn a m's Baby Sls ow. The much talked-of Baby Show opened at Barnum's Museum in New York on Tuesday the 9th. There were one hundred and forty three entries, seven sets of which were triplets, and eleven of twins. J. R. Sprague and wife of Danbury, Ct., exhibit five children--two girls and three boys, triplets and twins, all born. in Knox county, Ohio. Robert 11. Owen of Port Byron, Cayuga county, N. Y.,. exhibits triplets who glory in the name of William 11. Seward, John Quincy Adams and Albert Lamar tine. The Tribune says a list of the twins would be long and solemn. A child of Orlando Scott, born in New York, Feb. 18, 1851, drew the highest prize of $lOO, for the finest baby tinder four years of age. Tts father is a coach• man, and its mother is called a beauty. There were about 6,000 visitors at the Museum at one time on Tuesday, and 10,000 in all during 2811 There wns one child, Miss HELEN ECKHART, from Easton, Pa., four years and three months old, and weighing seventy-five pounds, who attracted very general attention. Mrs. II , from Bridgeport, was there, with her neighbor, Mrs. A., and this child fairly astonished them. The following conversation thenensued : Mas. lI.—I don't believe it's a real child, do 'on? ➢fns. A.—l never saw the beat on't. Jets PERKINS ain't a circumstance. 11.--I tell you it ain't a real natural young 'un. Mister BARNUM'S been humbug gin' agin, but he can't humbug me. I know better ; and I know it ain't no such thing. I hain't ihrgot about the mat-maid yet.. Mns; A.—lt's real queer, ain't it ? Here other eager spectators crowded in, and the ladies from Bridgeport were crowded out. Being tightly squeezed the remainder of the sentence was but an unintelligible explosion of air. Notwithstanding the extraordinary obesity of its child, her grandmother declares she enjoys ost excellent health. GRAIN AND FLOUR.—The present high prices of grain and flour cannot rule much longer in our markets. The coming crops are said to be most promising in every part of the Union. If any of our farmers arc holding back for higher prices they will be apt to get their tin ers burned. A bit of encouragment is given to persons of this class in the last Village (West Chester) Record. An old citizen of that place said to the Editor the other day that in 1817 ho was compelled to buy some grain, and had to pay sixty dollars for twenty bushels of wheat, or $3 a bushel. The next year ho got his flour for four dollars and a half a barrel. It looks very much just now as if it was going to be so again. TRANSIENT YOUNG MEN.—Girls, beware o transient young man ; never suffer the address es of a stranger ; recollect that one good steady farmer-boy or mechanic is worth all the floating trash in the world. The alltirements of a dandy jack with a gold chain about his neck, a walk ing stick in his paw, some honest tailor's coat on his back, and a brainless skull, can never make up the loss of a kind father's house, a good mother's counsel, and the society of bro thers and sisters ; their affections last, while that of such a young man is lost at the wane of the honeymoon. The LARGEST CODFISI7.—The New London (Connecticut) Chronicle says that, at Groton Long Point, George W. Lamb caught a cod fish weighing 75 pounds, in whose stomach he found, besides six bonyfish and six squids, a complete codilshing gear, except the line. The hook weighed two pnd ik quarter pounds, and look and gear were in shape unlike any thing ever before seen by the fisherman in that quarter Fourth wham nal Pair. The Fourth Exhibition of the " Lehigh Coun ty AgriCultural Society," Will be held at Allen town on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the Ist, 2d and 3d of October next. The Premi ums will be awarded according to the following Schedule: • NO. 1.-FIRLD CROPO For the best five acres of wheat, 415,00 Second best, . do 3,00 For the best one acre, do 2,00 Second best, do • 1,00 For the best five acres of Rye, d 5,00 Second best,3,oo For the best one acre, do 2,00 Second best, do l,oo' For the best five acres of Corn, - - -6 1 00 Second best, do 3,00 For the best one acre, do 2,00' Second best, ' do LOY For the best five acres of Oats, . 3,00' Second best, do 2,00' For the best one acre, do .2.00 Second best, do 1,00 For the best half trre of Potatoes, 3,00 do quarter acre do 2,06' For the best acre of Cloverseed, 3,00 do do Timothyseed, 3,00' In order to test the correctness of field crops, competitors are required to present certificatetr e . signed by three disinterested. neighbors, certife eying as to quality, &c., and produce a samplic, together with the mode of culture, to the sub joined Committee: Coat arras.—John Gross, Hiram J. .7chan4r, Tilgliman Henry, Peter Romich. No. 2.—..HonsEs AND MULES. ror the best Stallion for heavy draught, Second best, Rest Brood Mare, heavy draught, Second best, Best Stallion Quick do Second best, Best Brood Mare for quick draught, Second best, Best Horse Colt between 2 and 4 years, Second best, Best Mare Colt between 2 and 4 years, Second best. . . Best pair of• Farm Horses, Second best, ~ Best pair of Mules, 4 Second best, For the best pair of Carriage Horses, 4 Second est, 2 For th .st saddle Horse, 3 S .., wst. do 1 -7' the best Suckling Horse Colt, 2 Second best, 1 For the best Suckling Mare Colt, 2 Second best, 1 Commirras—Dr. Tilghman IL Martin. Ed ward Seidel., Tilghman Beary, Daniel Koch, Dr. Franklin IL Martin. No. 3.—CATTLE—NATIVES OR GRAMS For the best Bull, 3 years and upwards, $O Second best, . 3 Best Bull, under 3 years, . 4 Second best, a Best Bull Calf, 6 months and under, 2 Best Cow, of 3 years and upwards, 6 Second best, 4 Best Heifer, under 3 years, 3 Second best. 2 Best Heifer Calf, over 4 months, 2 fiOn Durham and Devon stock the premi ums are the same as above. COMMITTICE. —Edw. Schreiber. Reuben Glick, Paul lialliet, Aaron N. Larosh, Charles Kramer. No. 4. SHEEP Best long-wooled Buck, Costwald or other, $4 Second best, 1 Best middle-wooled Buck, - 4 Second best, 1 Best Native Buck,- . 4 Second best. 1 Best pen of 3 Ewes, 4 Second best, 1 Best pen of 3 Lambs, 4 Second best, 1 Coiammrss--Charles W. Cooper, George F. Stabler. John .13ortz, David Schall, Charles Witman. No. s.—Swims. Best Boar over two years old, $4 Second best, • 1 Best Boar over 6 months old, 2 Second best 1 Best Boar Pig from 2 to 6 months, 2 Second best, 1 For the best, Breeding sow over two years, 4 . II 2d 1 " best do between 1 and 2 years, 2 " 2d 1 " best sow over 6 months, . 2 " 2d 1 " best lot of Pigs between 2 and 6 mo. 2 " 2d 1 " best lot of Pigs 4 weeks and over, 2 2d enitstrrrns—Andrew Mohre, John Apple,. Jesse M. Line, Peter Mickley, Lewis Kluinp. No. 6.—AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. For best half bushel of white Wheat, $ 1 •do Red, do do Rye, 1 do Flint Corn, . 1 do • Gourd Seed Corn, .1 do Oats, ' 1 do Buckwheat. 1 For the best peck Timothy Seed, 1 For the best peck Clover Seed, . 1 For the best do Orchard Grass, 1 For the best bushel Irish Potatoes, / It' Mercer Potatoes, 1 tl Sweet Potatoes, 1 It 41 .. Christies' do . 1 II .g Field Turnips, • 1 A Diploma for the second best of each of the above articles. CommrrrEn—Samuel Saylor, Jacob Eber rhoads, Jr., Benj. Jarrett, Iliram J. Schantz, Joseph Witman. No. 7.—AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. For the best 5 Horse team full rigged, For the best 5 Mule team, For the best two-horse Plough, • Second best, Third best, Best Cultivator, do Harrow, do Roller. do Grain Drill, • . . Second best Grain Drill, Best Mowing or Reaping Machine, do. Corn Sheller (Horse Power) do do (Horse Power) do do (Hand Power) do Threshing Machine, do Sweep Horse Power, • Second best, • Bestitaihvay Horse Power, do Hay and Straw Cutter, do Corn Stalk Cutter, do half-dozen Hay Rakes, do Fanning Mill, do Churn, do Hay and Manure Forks,. • do Grain Cradle,
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