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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Note 16 — Chapter I · OF THE ORIGIN AND NAME OF CARDS

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Dr. Thomas Hyde is inclined to think that the game of Astragali was known from the time of the general Deluge.—De Ludis Orientalibus. Oxon. 1694.

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