The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6) is part of the Natural History catalogue. The record identifies Bostock, John, 1773-1846 [Translator], Pliny, the Elder, 24?-79, Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1816-1878 [Translator] as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

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The extracted text contains approximately 230,452 words, corresponding to an estimated 1002 minutes of reading, and is divided into 688 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 17.7 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.055. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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