Nov. 5. 1853.] 



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"in too gallant a habit for saylers :" in fact, they 

 •were pirates ! The unfortunate result shall now 

 be stated in the words of the p/rafe Michelborne : 



" Vpon rautuall courtesies with gifts and feastings 

 betweene vs, sometimes fiue and twentie or sixe and 

 twentie of their chiefest came aboord : whereof I 

 would not suffer aboue sixe to haue weapons. Their 

 was neiier the like number of our men aboord their 

 iunke. I willed captains John Dauis in the morning 

 [the twenty-seventh of December] to possesse himselfe 

 of their weapons, and to put the companie before mast, 

 and to leave some guard on their weapons, while they 

 searched in the rice, doubting that by searching and 

 finding that which would dislike them, they might 

 suddenly set vpon my men, and put them to tlie 

 sword: as the sequell prooued. Captaine Dauis being 

 beguiled with their humble semblance, would not pos- 

 sesse himselfe of their weapons, though I sent twice of 

 purpose from ray shippe to will him to doe it. They 

 passed all the day, my men searching in the rice, and 

 they looking on : at the sunne-setting, after long search 

 and nothing found, saue a little storax and beniamin : 

 they seeing oportunitie, and talking to the rest of their 

 companie which were in my ship, being neere to their 

 iunke, they resolued, at a watch-word betweene them, 

 to set vpon vs resolutely in both ships. This being 

 concluded, they suddenly killed and droue ouer-boord, 

 all my men that were in their ship ; and those which 

 were aboord ray ship sallied out of my cabbin, where 

 they were put, with such weapons as they had, finding 

 certaine targets in my cabbin, and other things that they 

 vsed as weapons. My selfe being aloft on the decke, 

 knowing what was likely to follow, leapt into the 

 waste, where, with the boate swaines, carpenter and 

 some few more, wee kept them vnder the halfe-decke. 

 At their first comming forth of the cabbin, they raet 

 captaine Dauis comming out of the gun-roome, whom 

 they pulled into the cabbin, and giuing him sixe or 

 seuen mortall wounds, they thrust him out of the 

 cabbin before them. His wounds were so mortall, 

 that he dyed assoone as he came into the waste." — 

 Purchas, L 137. 



Bolton CoBNBr. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Clouds in Photographs. — I wish one of your 

 photographic correspondents would inform me, 

 how clouds can be put into photographs taken on 

 paper ? Mr. Buckle's photographs all contain 

 clouds f 2. 



" The Stereoscope considered in relation to the 

 Philosophy of Binocular Vision " is the title of a 

 small pamphlet written by a frequent contributor 

 to this journal, Mr. C. Mansfield Ingleby, in 

 which he has "attempted to sketch out such 

 modifications of the theory of double vision as 

 appear to him to be entailed on the rationale of 

 the stereoscope." The corroboration thus indi- 

 rectly afforded to the principles of Sir William 

 Hamilton's Philosophy of Perception has induced 



Mr. Ingleby to dedicate his work to that distin- 

 guished metaphysician. The essay will, we have 

 no doubt, be perused with great interest by many 

 of our photographic friends, for whose gratification 

 we shall borrow its concluding paragraph. 



" In conclusion we must not forget to acknowledge 

 our obligations to the photographic art, not merely as 

 one of the most suggestive results of natural science, 

 but as a means of the widest and soundest utility. To 

 antiquaries the services of photography have a unique 

 value, for, by perpetuating in the form of negatives 

 those monuments of nature and art which, though 

 exempt from common accident, are still subject to 

 gradual decay from time, it places in the hands of us 

 all microscopically exact antitypes of objects which, 

 from change or distance, are otherwise inaccessible. 

 To the artist they afford the means of facilitating the 

 otherwise laborious, and often mechanical, task of 

 drawing in detail from nature and from the human 

 figure. 



" To the physician, to the naturalist, and to the man 

 of science, the uses of photography are various and im- 

 portant, and already the discoveries which have been 

 directly due to this modern art are of stupendous 

 utility. 



" To the metaphysician, its uses may be suflSciently 

 gleaned from the applications considered in the pre- 

 ceding pages. But to all these classes of men the pho- 

 tographic art derives its chief glory from its application 

 to the stereoscope ; and if, by elucidating the prin- 

 ciples of vision by means of this application, we have 

 in any degree given a stimulus to the practice and im- 

 provement of the photographic processes, our pains 

 have been happily and fruitfully bestowed." 



Muller's Processes. — Would you inform me, 

 through the medium of " !N. & Q.," what manu- 

 facture of paper is best adapted to the two pro- 

 cesses of Mr. Muller ? I have tried several : with 

 some I find that the combination of their starch 

 with the iodide of iron causes a dark precipitate 

 upon the face of the paper ; and with those papers 

 prepared with size, there appears to me great 

 difficulty (in his improved process after the paper 

 is moistened with aceto-nitrate of silver) to procure 

 an equal distribution of the iodide over its surface, 

 as it invariably dries or runs off parts of the paper, 

 or is repelled by spots of size on the paper when 

 dipped in the iodide of iron bath. — A reply to the 

 foregoing question would greatly oblige 



A Constant Eeadeb. 



Essex. 



Positives on Glass. — Sometimes, when your sitter 

 is gone, and you hold your portrait up to the light 

 to examine its density, you find in the face and 

 other parts which are dark, so viewed, minute 

 transparent specks, scarcely bigger than a pin's 

 point. When the picture is backed with black 

 lacquer, you have consequently small black spots, 

 which deform the positive, especially when viewed 

 through a lens of short focus. A friend of mine 



