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                               GIPHANTIA:

                                   OR

                               A VIEW of

                            WHAT HAS PASSED,
                          WHAT IS NOW PASSING,

                    And, during the PRESENT Century,

                            WHAT WILL PASS,

                             IN THE WORLD.


                  Translated from the original FRENCH,
                        With explanatory Notes.


                                LONDON.

                    Printed for ROBERT HORSFIELD, in
                        _Ludgate-Street_. 1761.

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                                 TO THE

                          Hon^{ble} MISS ROSS.


 MADAM,

Upon your hearing t