The former said "it was certainly not the 1,024 claimed recently in unsubstantiated reports" and Grose wrote "numbers such as 1,100 are fancifully high".
Die Vorgenannten korrigierten, “it was certainly not the 1,024 claimed recently in unsubstantiated reports” (deutsch: „Es waren sicherlich keine 1024, wie unlängst in unbelegten Berichten erwähnt.“) und Grose schrieb “numbers such as 1,100 are fancifully high” (deutsch: „Zahlen wie 1100 sind fantasiereich hoch“).