The most cumbersome form of money is found in Central Africa, where some of the natives use a cross-shaped ingot of copper oTe over ten inches long. It is heavy enough to be a formidable weapon. The frock-coat is unquestionably an English invention, and its first recorded appearance is in 1540, in the reign of Henry VIII. It is described as “a coat of velvet, somewhat shaped like a frock, embroidered all over with flatted gold cf damasks.”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 6
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78Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 6
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