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V-arieties. 



[Nov. 



and break them into small pieces ; boil 

 them in water, and, after filtering the ex- 

 tract through a sieve, add to sixteen gal- 

 lons of it about six pounds of sugar. It 

 may then, by boiling, be reduced to a sy- 

 rup, which will keep in bottles fora length 

 of time. For beer, mix three pints of this 

 extract with thirty of water ; boil it for 

 about two hours, and, when cold, put it 

 into a cask (a fresh-emptied wine-cask is 

 the best), aud ferment it in the usual 

 method. 



Gurnets Steam- Carriage. Although 

 the steam-engine has been successfully 

 employed for draught, where immense 

 power but no great speed was required 

 as in the collieries in the north of England 

 great doubls have been entertained as to 

 the practicability of adapting it to vehicles 

 which shall move with sufficient velocity 

 to supersede the ordinary stage-coach. 

 Messrs. Brustall and Hall are stated to 

 have produced an engine which answered 

 this purpose ; but, on the day of its in- 

 tended exhibition to the public, the boiler 

 exploded. Mr. Goldworthy Gurney has 

 been much more fortunate : a machine, of 

 his own design and construction, travelled 

 from his manufactory in the Reent's-par 

 to the town ofHighgate, during part of the 

 time at the rate of sixteen miles an hour, 

 and ascended the hill at about one-third 

 of that pace. By endeavouring to render 

 the vehicle as light as possible, its strength 

 was injudiciously Lnpaired, and, when de- 



scending the hill, on its return to town, 

 the axletree broke. Little or no damage 

 was sustained by the machinery, of which 

 the arrangement and adaptation were 

 equally admirable. It would be unhand- 

 some to offer a sketch of the machine in 

 its present state to our readers ; but, as 

 soon as the ingenious inventor has satisfied 

 his own wishes regarding it, we shall not 

 fail to offer an exact representation. 



Roman Galley. A beauiiful galley, 

 which it is believed was constructed by 

 Tiberius, was sunk at a very remote pe- 

 riod in the lake of Nemi, five leagues from 

 Rome. According to local tradition, many 

 valuable articles and a great number of 

 curious antiquities were lost in this vessel, 

 and two attempts were formerly made to 

 raise either it or its cargo from the bottom. 

 The first attempt was in the fifteenth cen- 

 tury, by the order of Cardinal Bosper Co- 

 lonna ; and the result was the recovery of 

 several brazen or leaden articles, in one 

 of which was well engraven the name of 

 Tiberius Caesar. In 1535, the celebrated 

 architect, March':, made a second attempt, 

 which, without being entirely useless, was 

 nevertheless not more decisive than the 

 first. The undertaking has now been recom- 

 menced by M. Annesio Tusconi, a Roman, 

 who has brought to some degree of per- 

 fection the machine for the subaqueous 

 operations. This last has already arrived 

 at Nemi, and accounts of its success are 

 daily expected. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS AND NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Viscount Dillon, the able annotator of 

 " The Tactics of JElian," has in the press an 

 epic poem in twelve books, entitled "Ecoelino 

 (fa Romano, surname*! the Tyrant of Padua." 

 The scene lies in Italy in the middle, of the 

 thirteenth century : and the poem contains 

 the history of that portion of the Wars of the 

 Guelphs and Ghibbelines. 



Preparing for publication, with a Plan of 

 the proposed Town of Hygeia, and Map 

 of the Vicinity of Cincinnati: Sketch of 

 a Journey through the Western States of 

 North America, from New Orleans, by the 

 Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati, and 

 Falls of" Niagara, to New York, in 1827. 

 By W. Bullock, F.L.S. <foe. &c. Author of 

 " Travels in Mexico." With a Description 

 of the new and flourishing City of Cincin- 

 nati, by Messrs. B. Drake ami E. D. Mans- 

 field. And a Selection from various authors 

 on the present Condition and future Pros- 

 pects of the Settlers, in the fertile and popu- 

 lous State of Ohio, containing Information 

 useful to Persons desirous of settling in 

 America. 



Mr. Kendall, Author of Letters on Ire- 



land and the Roman Catholic Question/ 

 and of " An Argument on Trial by Battle," 

 is preparing for publication Judicial Oaths, 

 in English Jurisprudence, their History and 

 Law: written with reference to the question 

 of administering an Oath upon the Gospels to 

 Unbelievers, and likewise the questions of 

 the legal utility and Christian lawfulness of 

 judicial swearing in general. The work 

 will also comprise a variety of legal, histo- 

 rical, and philological annotation. 



The Author of " The Astrologer of the 

 Nineteenth Century," has just ready The 

 Prophetic Messenger, with an ominous 

 Hieroglyphic for 1828, on a large copper- 

 plate, coloured ; it is to contain all the en- 

 tertaining and interesting parts, peculiar to 

 The Prophetic Almanack, the publication of 

 which is discontinued. 



Snatches from Oblivion, containing 

 Skeiches, Poems, and Tales. By Piers 

 Shafton. 



Religion in India : a Voice directed to 

 Christian Churches for Millions in the East. 



A Treatise on the Cutaneous Diseases in- 

 cidental to Childhood. By Walter C. Deny, 



