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Hogmanay. Our Correspondent J. Bn., who inquires the ety- 

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W. W. (Stilton.) The stone of which our Correspondent has 

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C. E. F. is informed that Mr. Eaton's proportion of ten grains 

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G. S. " The Cataract of Lodore" will be found in Longman's 

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Sir W. Newton's Calotype Process in our next. His first 

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