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THE ALCHYMISTS; OR Searchers for the Philosopher’s Stone and the Water of Life.

was only hearsay, but now I am enabled to speak from my own experience. I have in my possession a nail, half iron and half silver, which I made myself. That great and admirable workman also bestowed a still greater privilege upon me—he allowed me turn a piece of lead which I had brought

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