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have been two other persons, and that the executioner may have belied him. Besides this, I must Confess that two things are suspicious to me in the extreme: he first told me that the executioner who told him the story had been the executioner of Stoddart; on another day I asked him which of the two executioners had put Stoddart to death, and he replied he did not know!" The doctor also says:-"A caravan arrived here some days ago from Bokhara; and ask whom you will, the invariable answer is,-"They may be alive, for nobody has seen them exccuted, and the Gosh Bekee, or prime minister, who for five years was supposed to have been put to death, has suddenly come forth alive and well from prison.' The chief of the caravan of Bokhara, Mullah Kareem, who leaves that city every two mouths, and has a wife there, told me two days ago, that if any one asserts that he has seen the execution of the two eelchies, (ambassadors,) he is a liar!"Asiatic Journal.

DOCK YARDS OF FRANCE.-The number of

MAIL ARRANGEMENTS FOR INDIA AND CHINA. -Steam intercourse with India is likely to be arranged in a manner to meet the wishes of all parties interested in the subject; and a rapid and most efficient communication will ere long be carried out, by means of powerful vessels to be employed by the Government of India, and probably by the Peninsular and Oriental Company. Without pledging ourselves to details, we believe the following to be a correct outline of the arrangement at present contemplated. There is to be a bi-monthly instead of a monthly intercourse. The mails which leave London and Calcutta si multaneously on the 1st day of every month, are to be conveyed by the East India Company; those leaving on the 15th, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, if they obtain the contract; and the distance between London and Calcutta, and vice versa, is to be performed in forty days. The effect of this arrangement will be as follows:The mail leaving London on, say the 1st January, will be conveyed vid Marseilles and Suez to Bombay, whence letters will be transmitted, as now, to the various parts of the continent of India, and to Ceylon; those for Calcutta reaching that | city on the 10th February, so that answers may be despatched by the homeward mail of the 15th, to be brought by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessels, calling at Madras and Ceylon to take up the Bombay and China letters, which will arrive in London on the 25th March, in time to permit of replies by the outgoing mail of the 1st April, vid Bombay. In the same manner, the mail leaving London and Southampton on the 15th January, will be conveyed by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessels vid Suez to Ceylon, where they are to drop the mails for China and for Bombay, and then proceed onwards, calling at Madras, to Calcutta, arriving there on the 25th February; thus allowing time to answer by the homeward mail leaving on the 1st March, and reaching London by way of Bombay on the 10th April, to which replies may be transmitted by the outward mail of the 15th April, which will convey despatches to Bombay, China, Madras, and SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MEDICalcutta, by way of Ceylon. The intercourse CINE. This is a small but very select society, with China will be monthly, the Peninsular and composed of physicians, surgeons, and general Oriental Company having undertaken the con- practitioners. Its object is the mutual comparison, veyance of a mail, which will be forwarded from so to speak it, of notes, for general edification. Ceylon immediately on receipt of the outward It meets once a week, at the house of each memmail of the 15th of every month. In order to carryber in rotation. At the last meetingthese arrangements into effect, the East India The chair was taken by Dr. Hookie, at the head Company are to provide three new vessels of of his own tea-table. The worthy chairman, competent power. The Peninsular and Oriental with a cup of Hyson in his hand, begged to proCompany, to fulfil their part of the undertaking, pose as a toast, "Success to Practice." Drunk have ordered an iron steamer of large power; unanimously. they have also purchased the Precursor, conditionally, for £50,000, and offered $23,000 for the India.-Asiatic Journal.

laborers employed in the several dock yards on
the west coast of France at present, is 10,170, of
whom 3465 at Brest, 1102 at Rochefort, 1212 at
L'Orient, and 1127 at Cherbourg; besides 1000
artificers, &c., of the artillery, and 2053 other la-
borers on the marine works connected with the
last-mentioned of these ports. The cost of the
matèriel of the French navy is estimated at about
twelve millions sterling, or 298,463,000 francs,
and out of this sum the ships themselves, without
any of their equipments, are estimated to have
occasioned an outlay of nearly £2,500,000. From
the year 1826 to 1830, inclusive, the yearly con-
sumption of hemp for cordage amounted to 2450
tons; it does not exceed at this tie 1470.
ship of the line, with her entire equipments, is
estimated to cost the state a sum of £116,000;
for instance, the Hercules, which conveyed the
Prince de Joinville to the Brazils, did not put to
sea for less than £117,580, in which sum, bow-
ever, some extraordinary disbursements are in-
cluded.-U. Serv. Mag.

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The secretary (Mr. Jones) then stated that Mr. Baggs had a communication to make to the Society.

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Mr. Baggs would, with permission of the SoDR. WOLFF.-Capt. Grover has received a let-ciety, relate an interesting case. The patient was ter from Dr. Wolff, dated Meshed, March 24. an elderly lady, ætatis 65; her complaint was a The doctor fell in with Saleh Mohammed, called sinking at the stomach, accompanied by a singing the Akhoondyadeh, whose circumstantial state- in the ears; together with a nervous affection, ment of what he said people told him of the exe-described by herself as "alloverishness." cution of Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly, was published in all the papers. The doctor thus writes:"Saleh Mohammed told me that the two persons who were put to death, and of whom he gave a circumstantial account to Col. Sheill, may

(Mr. Baggs) had called the disorder Debilitas, and Tinnitus Aurium. Ordered-Pil. Mica Panis, box one,-three pills to be taken every night: and a sixteen ounce mixture, composed of Tinct. Cardamom: Comp. drachms ten: Syrup: Simp.: ounces

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two and the rest, Aqua: three table spoonfuls [ rated the sensation caused by the lavish generosity three times a day. The patient had been two of the_Monarch who appears to "hold the gormonths under treatment-expresses herself to geous East in fee." We are too busy a people to have been done a world of good-but should like mind portents long: it is very doubtful whether, to go on with the medicine. He (Mr. Baggs) were some of those green knolls once said to be considered that he had been very lucky in his the haunts of "the good people," to open at our patient, and only hoped he might have many such. feet and reveal the elves gambolling in caverns A member here suggested the propriety of rich as that in which Aladdin found his lamp, the drinking her health. (No, no; and laughter.) marvel would excite more than an exclamation of Another member thought that Mr. Baggs had momentary surprise. The Imperial visit has made a good thing of it. come and gone like the lightning, "which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens." If the Emperor-instead of, as is probable, merely gratifying a momentary whim-calculated upon exciting a sensation in England by his meteor-like transit, he has reckoned without his host.-Spec.

Mr. Baggs rather flattered himself that he had. He had charged "Iter," each visit, 5s., besides medicine, and he had seen the case daily.

The same member wished, if it was a fair question, to know what might have been the prime cost of the drugs?

Mr. Baggs said that the tincture in each bottle, he should think, was about threepence-halfpenny, and the syrup perhaps three farthings. The aqua was an insignificant fraction of the rate on that fluid; as was the Panis of the baker's bill.

One member considered that a few powders, now and then, might have been sent in. Another would have applied an Emplastrum Picis to the Epigastrium. It would have been 3s.

Mr. Baggs thought that a little moderation was

sometimes as well.

The Society, generally agreed with him. Dr. Dunham Brown then recounted an instructive case of gout, occurring in an alderman. He had been in attendance on him for a twelve-month, and had taken, on an average, three fees a week. The Chairman next read a valuable paper

"On

Professional Appearance," in which he strongly recommended black gaiters.

A discussion ensued respecting the advantages of spectacles in procuring the confidence of pa

tients. At its conclusion

glishman is just arrived in a German town, with half-a-dozen youths under his care, for the finishing of their education. Some of these youths are nearly grown to manhood. They have their guns and pistols, and practise at a mark, or at birds, in their tutor's garden. A flock of sparrows settles on a tree; they fire at them. A man in a neighboring garden raises his head and gazes rives a policeman, with a long printed paper of sternly and significantly at them. Presently arregulations against the shooting of birds, with all the pains and penalties. The youths lay aside the fowling-piece, and amuse themselves with shooting at the sparrows with pellets of putty, sent from a sarbacan or blow-gun, blown by the mouth. Presently appears again the grave servant ing how strictly it is forbidden to kill singing of justice, with another long printed paper, showthe wisdom of the government to be singing birds, birds, with a list of those which are decided by and the various fines for such offences, mounting up in severity from a tomtit to a nightingale, the penalty for whose death is five florins, or 8s. 4d. Guns and blow-guns being thus spiked by the pointo the open wood behind the house, where they supposed they could molest no one, and amused themselves with firing at a mark with a pistol. At the very first crack, however, out steps a wood policeman, in his long drab coat with green collar, seizes the pistol, pockets it, and walks off. Astounded at this proceeding, the youths for some time desisted from all sorts of shooting; but, tempted one day by a handsome brass cannon in a shop-window in the city, (what do these shop keepers sell little brass cannons for ?) they immediately conclude that with cannons you may shoot. People do not shoot singing-birds, at all events, with cannon. They therefore bought the cannon; and to avoid all possible offence, they carried it into the mountains, and far up there, in a rocky hollow, they commenced firing their cannon at a mark on the wall of a precipice. Bang goes the little cannon, back it flies with the shock,-out starts a policeman, and puts it in his pocket!

POLICE INTERFErence in GermANY.-An En

The Chairman inquired who was for a game at whist? Several members answering for themselves in the affirmative, cards were introduced. The Society separated at a respectable hour.lice, the unfortunate youths betook themselves

Punch.

A GLIMPSE OF FAIRY LAND.-The Emperor of Russia is the only existing representative of the Emperor of the Fairy Tale or Arabian Nights' Entertainment. For fair speeches and rich gifts on every side, there has been nothing heard of like him since the little girl out of whose mouth came lilies and roses whenever she opened it, and out of whose hair was combed pearls and diamonds. He scattered his drafts for 1,000l. or 500l. about him with as much nonchalance as a stage Croesus could distribute bits of white paper. Lords of the Household have received his Majesty's portrait set in diamonds; Equerries, his "cipher," similarly adorned; maitres d'hôtel have diamond rings; and even menial domestics have gold boxes, rings, and watches. In reading of this shower of good luck, one is carried back in imagination to the days of Danaë; Sinbad's Valley of Diamonds rises to the view-a fat cook setting a delicate roast before the Autocrat, which is withdrawn with a jewel sticking to it. But the provoking part of the story is the imperturbable phlegm with which John Bull endures this vision of Fairyland opening for a moment in the midst of his commonplace world. The Chelsea Bazaar, Mr. Ward's motion about the Irish Church, the Sugarduties, a hundred other topics of the day, each in turn driving out the other, have already oblite- |

The patience of the youths was now exhausted. They demanded, "What! cannot we even fire a child's cannon?" The reply was, "Nein, das ist am strengsten verboten."* "No, that is most strictly forbidden." The youths, with English spirit, protested against the seizure of their cannon. "Good! good!" was the answer, and the next day they were summoned to the Amt-house, and, on the clearest showing of the printed regulations, fined ten shillings.-German Experiences.

O'CONNELL.-After the close of the proceedings | excitement" occurred at Galaway. A foolish in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, on sexton, to curry favor with a gentleman who Thursday last week, Mr. O'Connell and the other had arrived over night at his residence in the traversers remained for about an hour in the neighborhood, rang the bells of St. Nicholas's Judges' chambers, awaiting certain formalities in church; on which a mob collected, and would order to their commitment. At a quarter after have lynched the sexton, but that some priests five o'clock, they were driven off in three carri- and gentlemen interposed and promised that he ages, accompanied by the High Sheriff, and es- should be punished. He was summarily discorted by a strong body of mounted Police, to missed.-Spectator. Richmond Bridewell, in the South Circular Road. As they passed forth, there was a general cry of BYRON'S STATUE BY THORWALDSEN.-A case "Silence!" among the crowd; which was in a of an extraordinary nature is about to be brought state of great "excitement," and several persons before the London tribunals. Thorwaldsen, as is shed tears. Numbers followed the carriages; and well known, had executed a colossal statue of a large crowd was collected at the entrance of the Lord Byron, which he presented to the Chapter prison. Inside the prison-gate stood a numerous of Westminster, on condition of its being placed party of gentlemen, in two files, personal friends in that cathedral beside the monuments of other of Mr. O'Connell: they uncovered as he entered; poets. The Chapter first accepted the offer, but and he shook hands with them. O'Connell and it is equally well known that some scruples were his companions were conducted to the Governor's raised afterwards against placing the author of house. Mr. Purdon, the Governor, being absent, Don Juan in this national mausoleum; and the Mr. Cooper, the Deputy-Governor, received the case containing the precious marble was never prisoners from High Sheriff Ball; and Mr. claimed by the Chapter. The testamentary exeO'Connell was conveyed to rooms which he had cutors of Thorwaldsen being informed of this state engaged before the passing of the sentence. of things, made some inquiries, and the masterThey are spacious and airy. Mrs. Fitzsimon and piece of Thorwaldsen was found lying on the Mrs. French, O'Connell's daughters, were in floor of a cellar in a state of extreme deterioration, waiting to receive him in his new lodging; and amongst the fragments of the case, which the after a short interval, he walked with them in the humidity of the place had reduced to a state of large gardens belonging to the prison, to which perfect rottenness. Consequently, a person duly his party have access. The Liberator seems to authorized by the executor addressed a formal repass his time as pleasantly as a prison allows he clamation to the authorities, but when the Cushas an almost daily levee, admitting visitors for tom-house officers went with him to the cellar, a few hours each day except Mondays and Wed-it was found that the statue had disappeared, and nesdays. The Dublin papers publish a letter by nothing but fragments of the case remained behind his chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Miley, dated "the sec- The executors then addressed to the Customond day of the Captivity," describing O'Connell house a demand for indemnity. This, however, was refused, under the plea that it cannot be an"Never have I beheld the Liberator in a sub-swerable for goods refused by the parties to limer attitude than this morning, as he knelt, I whom they are addressed. The executors have may say in fetters, before the altar he himself had resolved on bringing an action for damages against freed. It was a spectacle of much grander import the Custom-house of London. The sum claimed than even of a 'just man contending with adver- is 30,0001. (750,000f.) at which the statue was sity'; and if those who have been laboring so valued by the artists of Rome on its being shiplong, per fas aut nefas, to afflict his spirit, to em-ped to London.—Morning Chronicle. bitter and disgrace his declining years, could have beheld the serenity of his countenance in receiving the divine communion, I would not say of Population, on which the appropriation of the they would have been sorely disappointed, but, duties received on account of the German Cusfor the honor of human nature, I shall persuade toms-Union is founded, affords us the following myself that it would have repented them of their data respecting the number of inhabitants in each intent in seeking to fix the brand of a felonious State of the Union in the year 1843; viz. Prussia, conspirator on such a man. No; O'Connell is 14,934,340; Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, 175,not sick-he is not sad; let no one believe it. I 223; Bavaria, 4,370,977; Kingdom of Saxony, was beside him in the court; I accompanied him 1,706,267; Wurtemberg, 1,646,871; the to the prison; it is scarce an hour since this hand Principalities of Hohenzollern, 59,387; Baden, that writes was grasped in his : and I aver, upon 1,290,146; Electoral Hesse (or Hesse Cassel), this knowledge, that he is in rude health, un-692,835; Grand Duchy of Hesse, 811,503; Landshaken in his purpose, and undismayed as when graviate of Hesse, 18,444; Brunswick, 265,835; he denounced the Union on Tara or Mullaghmast, Nassau, 398,095; and Frankfort on the Main, serene in the spirit of his mind, and full of buoy-66,338. The total population of States forming ant vigor. He is proud of his present position, the Union, inclusive of certain isolated districts, and looks back upon the past with triumph; and Thuringia, &c., amounted last year to 27,623,815. never were his hopes of the future brighter than -U. Serv. Mag. at this moment, or more akin to certainty."

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The Repeal papers present a "tremendous excitement" as obtaining in the provinces; but the examples cited are not very striking. In one place the people shut up their shops in token of mourning; in others they got up early to hear the news; and on Sunday prayers were said for O'Connell's health and strength to bear up under the "unjust sentence." The most "alarming

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THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS.-In a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, Marshal Soult admitted the holy war declared by Morocco against the French in Algiers. The papers also announce an untoward event in the province of Constantina. The garrison of Biscara, composed of natives in French pay, had revolted, murdered two French officers, and betrayed the post to the enemy.-Spect.

SCIENCE AND ART.

ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS.-Among the many | Bacchus on his shoulder, 3 feet; a Pan, 3 feet inscriptions of the Acropolis which have been published in the Ephmeris of the Archæological Society, are three or four of peculiar historic interest the inscription on the base of the votive statue to Minerva of health, mentioned in the Life of Pericles, by Plutarch and by Pliny, the catalogue of the contributions of different towns to the treasury in the Parthenon, and the description, price and distribution of the work done in erecting the Long Walls.

The following statues and relievos are of sufficient value to merit casts, were the means afforded from the museums of Europe:-10 pieces of the frieze of the Parthenon, of the 14 still in the Acropolis; 1 metope-the Winged Victory taking off her sandal, and another called the Bull of Marathon, relievos from the exterior of the Victory Apteros, with part of a third, a beautiful little statue of a fawn, about 2 feet high; Ceres, or Diana, ascending a car, in a style resembling that of the Zanthian Marbles; about eight of the small sepulchral and other relievi preserved in the Pinacotheca; several beautiful fragments of small statues, three of those preserved in the Stoa of Adrian; a torso of a Cupid; a bold sepulchral relief of an old man and a youth, 5 feet high; a finely draped statue, of the best era, 6 feet high, found at Andros, head wanting, having been replaced by a Roman bust, as the cutting at the neck shows; small relief, with inscription Athena, &c.; the colossal statue of Erechthonius, still in situ, below the temple of Theseus, 8 feet high, head wanting; colossal statue of Minerva Victrix, remarkable for its exquisite drapery, head wanting, near the Theseium. In the Theseium-the very curious relievo, 6 feet high, of a Warrior with spear, with great remains of colors-a work of Aristeion, of the ancient school of Sycion; a beautiful figure, of the very best era, perfect all but the legs below the knee and the arms, 5 feet high, called the Apollo, from having a serpent on the base; a statue supposed to be Apollo Lycius, 6 feet; a beautiful little Silenus, with the infant

high; a beautiful little Terminus, 1 1-2 foot high, with three heads of the Diana Triformis, and one of Hermes; a sepulchral relief, 5 feet by 4, of a youth, dog and boy; another, of the same size, of female, nurse, child, and friend-both these pieces, in very prominent alto relievo, are admirable specimens of the common sepulchral style subsequent to the best period of Athenian sculpture. Several other relievos, of small size and minor importance. No excavations have been made lately out of the Acropolis, neither is there any probability of any being made, for the Greek Government have no funds for the purpose, and the law prevents any individual from removing any antiquities from Greece. It is much to be lamented, that great part of the town is built over ancient remains, and little hope can any longer be entertained of any discoveries in Athens, except in the Acropolis. Indeed, many reasons combine to point out other places as affording better hopes of success in archæological research. Athenæum.

MR. DRAYTON'S INVENTION FOR SILVERING MIRRORS.-By this gentleman's process, the mirror is, for the first time, literally speaking, silvered, inasmuch as silver is precipitated on it from its nitrate (lunar caustic) in the form of a brilliant lamina. The process is this: on a plate of glass, surrounded with an edge of putty, is poured a solution of nitrate of silver in water and spirit, mixed with ammonia and the oils of cassia and of cloves. These oils precipitate the metal in somewhat the same manner as vegetable fibre does in the case of marking ink-the quantity of oil influencing the rapidity of the precipitation. Mr. Faraday here referred to Dr. Wollaston's method of precipitating the phosphate of ammonia and magnesia on the surface of a vessel containing its solution, in order to make intelligible how the deposit of silver was determined on the surface of clean glass, not (as in Dr. W.'s experiment) by mechanical causes, but by a sort of electric affinity.

Inspiration.

Graduation of Power.

This part of Mr. Faraday's discourse was illus-dial plate, graduated with inches and tenths, and trated by three highly striking adaptations of Mr. is divided equally by a perpendicular line. The Drayton's process. He first silvered a glass plate, left side is graduated for measuring inspiration, the surface of which was cut in a ray-like pattern. the right half for expiration certain words are 2d. A bottle was filled with Mr. Drayton's trans- engraved in each division expressive of different parent solution, which afterwards exhibited a degrees of strength, thuscylindrical reflecting surface. And, 3d. A large cell, made of two glass plates, was placed erect on the table, and filled with the same clear solution. This, though perfectly translucent in the first instance, gradually became opaque and reflecting; so that, before Mr. Faraday concluded, those of his auditors who were placed within view of it, saw their own faces, or that of their near neighbors, gradually substituted for the faces of those who were seated opposite to them.-Ath.

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table of heights, by which it appears that the capacity of a man's lungs increases in arithmetical progression of 8 cubic inches for every inch of his actual height.-Ath.

LAND DRAINING.-Land is rendered cold and

PNEUMATIC APPARATUS FOR VALUING THE RE- These expressions of power are obtained from SPIRATORY POWERS, ILLUSTRATED BY DIAGRAMS results of nearly 1,200 observations. The merAND TABLES.-It consists of two instruments, the cury is contained in a bent tube, one end of which one called the "Breathing machine" for measur-is surmounted by a flexible tube, which is tering "Volume," and the other called the "Inspira- minated by an Indian rubber nose-piece, through tor," for measuring "Power"-by which the three which the person under trial draws in or blows principal observations for arriving at correct re-out to the extent of his power. Several persons, sults are taken, viz., the number of cubic inches including fire-brigade men, wrestlers, gentlemen, of air thrown out of the chest-and the power by and particularly Robinson, the well-made dwarf, which that air can be drawn in and given out. thirty-six years of age, standing 3 feet 9 inches The "Breathing machine" consists of two vertical high, were subjected to the trial of Mr. Hutchincylinders, one within the other, the outer one son's apparatus-and it was observed how accucontains water, while the inner one, being in-rately these cases agreed with Mr. Hutchinson's verted, is intended to receive the breath, and hence is called the receiver; this receiver is raised in proportion to the quantity of air given out of the lungs of the person under examination. The receiver is counterbalanced by two leaden weights working in two vertical hollow brass perpendicular tubes. To each of the weights is attached a late by the great capacity of water for heat, as cord, which, working over a pulley at top, passes compared with clay or sand; the same quantity down another brass tube or column and connected of heat which is sufficient to raise the temperawith the cross-head of the receiver, which crossture of earth or mould four degrees of Fahrenheit, head with the receiver works up and down by and of common air five degrees, being only means of slots formed in the inside column. In sufficient to raise that of water one degree; the order to determine how much air is given out, a residue being absorbed by the water and renderscale is connected with the receiver, which ed latent. Consequently, when the land is satuascends and descends with it; on this scale the rated by water, the sun's rays, instead of being figures represent cubic inches-calculated accord- expended in heating the soil, are absorbed and ing to the contents of the receiver, which con- rendered latent by the water which it contains, tains 388 cubic inches of air. The level of the and the soil derives but one-fourth of the warmth water is the datum or standard line from which which it would do were it filled with common the number of cubic inches is to be determined. air instead of water. Other injurious effects are, A bent glass tube is connected with the water in that it sours the land, and gives rise to the formathe reservoir, so that the level of the water in the tion of substances hurtful to vegetation. These reservoir is readily ascertained by an inspection are caused by the exclusion of common air and of the tube: the divisions on the scale on the the oxygen which it contains from the pores of same level as the surface of the water, indicate the soil. Vegetable and animal manures thus rethe number of cubic inches contained in the re- main imperfectly decayed, or decay is converted ceiver, at any elevation. The breath enters the into putrefaction, and acetic, malic, tannic, gallic, receiver by a tube passing up through the reser- and other acids substituted for carbonic acid and voir of water, and when the experiment is con- ammonia, the products of simple decay, and cluded and the receiver is to be drawn down again, which, with the elements of water, are now the air is discharged by a valve cock at bottom. recognized as the chief agents in the nourishment Three taps are fixed in front of this machine, the of plants. Superabundant moisture, likewise, one for drawing off the water when necessary; renders the climate of a country insalubrious; the second for discharging the breath through; but its injurious effects are more immediately and the middle one, called the drain tap, for drain-recognized in supplying the roots of growing ing off water that sometimes by accident is forced into the vertical tubes. The "Inspirator" is constructed on the principle of elevating by the power of the muscles of inspiration and expiration, a column of mercury, and according to the elevation of the mercury to determine the relative power exerted by these muscles. It consists of a

plants with a greater quantity of moisture than they are able to digest, and thus rendering them weak and dropsical.—Ibid.

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