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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 1040 — LOTTERY. TONTINE.

William Johnston translation

Commelin’s Amsterdam, i. p. 440. In the year 1561 the profit on a lottery was employed for enlarging the Orphan House. See Pontani Rerum Amst. Hist. 1611, fol. lib. ii. c. 2.

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