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we may presume that they will be carried into 

 effect, so soon as an Act of Parliament can be 

 obtained for the purpose ; and your Council em- 

 brace the opportunity which the mention of this 

 subject offers to them, of stating their entire 

 conviction, that the projected Railway presents to 

 the Land Owner, the Merchant, the Farmer, and 

 the Mechanic, the only likely means of throwing 

 open, and turning to immediate and profitable 

 account, those rich and inexhaustible mineral, and 

 other treasures, in which the district is already 

 known to abound; and opening new sources of 

 employment and emolument, in lieu of those, 

 which have been for so long a time, either languish- 

 ing, or entirely lost. 



At a general meeting held a few weeks ago, the 

 Rev. George Young, A.M. explained to the Society 

 an ingenious plan invented by an honorary mem- 

 ber, John Murray, Esq. F.S.A. &;c. &c. for effect- 

 ing an instantaneous communication with a ship- 

 wrecked vessel, by means of an Arrow (bearing 

 a line), shot from a Pistol, or Blunderbuss. 



Mr. Murray's apparatus appears to possess some 

 decided advantages over Capt. Manby's: it is 

 much less expensive, much more portable, and 

 consequently more readily conveyed to the scene 

 of distress ; and what must be esteemed of still 

 greater importance, is the fact, that an Arrow 

 propelled in the manner described by Mr, Murray, 



