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Excerpt from The Story of Joan of Arc
After the period when France owned the British monarch for her lord; though there is one old tower, facing the sea at the en trance of the port, which bears evidence of an origin before the use of the cross-bow was quite laid aside for the cannon and musket. Its walls are sculptured over with cannon balls and cross-bow bolts, as if half embedded there, in token, I presume, that the builders considered them too thick to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
