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==William Smith (1890): "By putting his head in a hat or some dark object it was not necessary to close one eye while looking through the stone with the other"==
William Smith:
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a silver bow ran over one stone, under the other around over that one and under the first in the shape of a horizontal figure 8 much like a pair of spectacles....much too large for Joseph...could only see through one at a time using sometimes one and sometimes the other. By putting his head in a hat or some dark object it was not necessary to close one eye while looking through the stone with the other. In that way sometimes when his eyes grew [tired] he [relieved] them of the strain.<ref>“William Smith interview by J. W. Peterson and W. S. Pender, 1890,” in ''Early Mormon Documents'', 1:508.</ref>
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