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BEP(F.749.016
3 Apr 1749:12 (712)
[London] Nov. 28. . . We are assured that before the
fireworks begin to be played off, there will be a hundred
and one fine pieces of brass cannon discharged, which were
never made use of before; and that there will be a band of
upwards of a hundred of the best musicians placed in a
gallery in the front of the firework, who are to play during
great part of the time the fireworks are going off; that the
building will be hear an hundred feet high, and on that a
large mast, fifty feet, on which will be fixed the
representation of the sun, which will be thirty feet
diameter,and which, on being set on fire, will expand itself
above sixty; and at the conclusion, six thousand rockets
will be discharged all at once.
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