one of the first plays written & printed in America was an opera mocking treasure hunting
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however the performance was cancelled and it went unperformed for 200 years because it made fun of powerful local treasure hunters
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from the preface: “to put a ftop (if poffible) to the foolifh and pernicious practice of fearching after fuppofed hidden treafures”
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Thif is probably not newf to you, but juft in cafe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
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it’f FO MUCH BETTER with the long f’s - especially the word “pernicious” but it looks like a regular s in the mss.
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no true treasure hunter would be dissuaded by such mummery
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*diffuaded
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