"Mystification" by Edgar Allan Poe

Slid, if these be your "passados" and "montantes," I'll have none of them.
-Ned Knowles.

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The picture used is "The Floquet-Boulanger duel" from 1888.

The text didn't give a name for the city, just G--n, but Göttingen easily fits the bill for the context of this story, and what would I say otherwise? It's bad enough I have to fumble the ungiven year "18--" used in the text. Why do authors do this sort of thing? It's not just Poe, lots of 19th century authors do this - Victor Hugo is even worse about it, for example. Grrrr...

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2150/2150-h/2150-h.htm#chap4.9

Still fiddling with the hardware, still not particularly satisfied with it. May have to go back to the previous arrangement.