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IA.749.022
3 Apr 1749:12 (66)
London. . . Nov. 19 . . . We are assur'd, 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 fireworks who are to play during
great part of the time the fireworks are going off; that the
building will be near an hundred feet high, and on 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 expend itself above sixty; and at
the conclusion, six thousand rockets will be discharged all
at once.
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