The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chap. III

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MAN. - (Continued.) Astonishing Acquisitions made by Blind Persons-Wonderful Performances of a Female, blind almost from Infancy--Wonderful Instances of Adroitness of Persons born defective in their Limbs-Curious Account of Incapacity of distinguishing Colours-Ventriloquism-Sword-swallowing Jugglers.

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