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749.1 any third Observer

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749-50 Mason's surreal dream of "the City" of Standing Stones, and the
personification of Death, remind me a little of the opening of GR

750.17 wrote the Rev.d, on unnam'd Authority

Indeed.

751.14-20 no different than man and wife really. ... "The Girls are mine."

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754.15 Bishop Auckland

http://www.aboutbritain.com/towns/BishopAuckland.asp?RefID=1501019

754.17 Alidade  alidade or alidad 1. a surveying instrument used in
plane-tabling for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and taking
angular measurements  2. the upper rotatable part of a theodolite, including
the telescope and its attachments [15th C. from French, from Medieval Latin
*allidada*, from Arabic *al-idada* the revolving radius of a circle]

In this context, the second of these.

756.1 a Norfolk Terrier, of memorable appearance

One of the L.E.D.'s descendant's no doubt. Cf. Dixon's girls' faces; Mason's
boys' resemblance to Rebekah, and young Charlie's resemblance to Mason's
father; "Shelbys", "all the McLeans" etc

757.4 Dace-Shoals

http://www.waterland.net/visschenwinkel/dace.htm

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Marcel_Karssies/dace.htm

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