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in the air which supports animal life and combustion, and is indeed 

 the most widely difi'used and most active of any element known. 



Hydrogen is the lighest substance known, and, from its chemical 

 characteristics, is supposed to be a metal in a state of vapor, as the 

 oxides of the metals are designated in common language by the word 

 rust Q^ Hydrogen. 



We have, then, taken a hasty view of the agencies of water in the 

 organic world, and did we not fear that the subject, although not 

 intrinsically a dry one, would become wearisome to our readers, we 

 might pursue it much farther. We have seen that water is capable 

 of assuming the solid form even at ordinary temperatures, and by 

 chemical combination become harder than granite. We have seen 

 its great destructive power when aided by frost, and its leveling and 

 degrading tendencies, which, if permitted to work unchecked, would 

 soon spread the dry land over old ocean's bed We have also 

 seen that it is the vehicle which transports the atoms of other sub- 

 stances in all their changes and migrations and which assists the vital 

 power in erecting those wonderful structures of the animal and 

 vegetable world. 



In our next, we will consider some other of the rawmaterials con- 

 sumed in nature's laboratory. 



THE OHIO FEMALE COLLEGE." 



( SEE LITHOGRAPH. ) 



This Institution is located at the village of " College Hill," six 

 miles north of Cincinnati. The buildings of the College are eight 

 in number and centrally located upon a beautifully diversified and 

 highly cultivated lot of ground, containing twenty-two acres. A 

 front view of these buildings is represented in the Lithograph. The 

 one on the left is the " Odeon " containing twelve rooms, each of 

 which is supplied with musical instruments for the use of the Pupils. 

 The building on the right contains a spacious chapel, lecture- 

 rooms, philosophical and chemical apparatus, etc. The center or 

 main building is doubtless the first structure in its adaptations to be 

 found in the United States. It is one hundred and forty-seven feet 

 in length by eighty one in depth, three stories high besides the 



