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EXCEPTIONAL SENSES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR,—In reference to the firing at Cherbourg heard at Lyme, as mentioned by " X. Y. Z.," I will add that the firing at the battle between the 'Alabama' and Kearsage,' off Cherbourg, June 19th, 1864, was heard in Devon at Furlong, near Chagford, and Pafford, near Dunsford, in the Valley of the Teign ; at St. George's Clyst, near Exeter, in the Exe Valley, and at Abbosham, near Bideford. The particulars are given in a memoir by myself, read before the Devonshire Association, contained in Vol. IV. of the Transactions of that Association.—I am, Sir, Sze.,