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A valuable Invention.

We ask the attention of our readers to the communication in another column, on the subject of a machine designed for the reduction of fortresses, and the destruction of wooden shirrs. The writer is a gentleman of the highest character and standing, a native of Richmond, though long a resident in a Southern State.

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