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The esteem in which Brotero was held by foreigners is ho- 

 nourable to his country ; his works were sought after and even 

 solicited through the intervention of Portuguese ambassadors, 

 and they procured for him an extensive correspondence. In short, 

 the literary history of Portugal presents few characters of greater 

 distinction, and there was hardly any scientific society of which 

 he was not a member. 



After fulfilling for twenty years the duties of Professor at Coim- 

 bra, he was removed to Lisbon, to superintend the Royal Garden 

 and Museum of Ajuda. He died there on the 5th of August 1828, 

 alter acquiring the character of the Portuguese Linnaeus, and ren- 

 dering his country many services, for which his only recompense 

 was the paltry decoration of the Order of S. Bento d'Avis.* 







ON THE MAKING OF CHINESE PAPEIt. 

 (Translated from tJie 2%rd Vol. of the "Pun Tsavu Kang Muh.") 



In antient times, bamboos were connected together, and letters 

 burnt into them, to form books • and hence the several characters 

 employed to denote papers and documents are formed partly with 

 the letters for "bamboo." In the time of the Tsin and the 

 Han dynasties letters were written upon silk cloth; and hence 

 the names for silk and cloth are component parts of the character 

 used for paper. In the time of the Emperor Ho Te (a.d. 100), 

 Tsac Lun began to take the bark of trees, old silk of different 

 kinds, fishing-nets, and hemp, and boil them to rags and make 

 paper of them, which was employed throughout the whole of 

 the empire. 



Another authority says, the people of Shuh, on the western side 

 of China, use hemp or linen to make paper ; the people on the 

 east, in Fokeen, use tender bamboos ; the people of the north, the 

 hark of the mulberry ; others use the rattan ; some, mosses or 

 lichens; some the straw of wheat or other grains; some the 



* The biographer, although abundantly verbose, appears extremely embarrassed 

 ami difficult to comprehend; of this we have already had examples. While in 

 1 ortugul, we were iuformed by an intelligent gentleman, that, after the first revo- 

 lution, Brotero was a member of the Cortez. If this was the rase, it may explain 

 the neglect complained of in the last paragraph. The Garden of Ajuda, near 

 Lisbon, is in a wretched condition, although not nearly so bad as that of Coim- 

 bra, whu-h we believe is owing to the fact that only a* brief period has elapsed 

 since Br. Welwitseh resigned the superintendence of it. 



