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Echoes and the Philosopher Jenks on a Picnic
A group on a wheeling expedition pauses by a riverbank where the pompous Jenks expounds a new theory of echoes. He argues lime in the hill creates echoes and plans careful experiments to prove his geological ideas to the American Philosophical Society. A spectator challenge yields the echo correctly replying fishing, while others debate the science and joke at the philosophers claims.
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