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[164] See letter by Dr Murray, afterwards Sir James Murray, in the _Athenaeum_, Feb. 4, 1884.

[165] The _Encyclopaedia Britannica_ does not imitate the wise reticence of Tabourot's saving clause, but p.r.o.nounces authoritatively for the _porte de Hugon_ fable.

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