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most perfectly taken off, this may be cut into any siz& or 

 ihape, and suffered to dry for a few days, -when it acquires 

 almost a stone-like hardness, and will take an extremely 

 high polish ; in drying, the impressions will sometimes crack, 

 to prevent which they should before quite dry, be slightly 

 glazed over with fine Olive oil, or the Oil of Almonds, 

 we have known an impression of a common seal taken 

 off in this way, which has answered the purpose of its 

 original for some years. 



The state of the Arts of Painting, Engraving, and 

 Sculpture, should also be ascertained, with the peculiar 

 methods of performing the same; what collections of Paint- 

 ings, or of Natural Curiosities, either public or private 

 exist, if public, under what regulations, and for what pur- 

 poses. What Artists of celebrity are now residing at the 

 place, with any biographical memoirs of their great Men, 

 either Statesmen, Philosophers, Artists, or the like ; with 

 the causes that have led to any remarkable change either in 

 the Government, Customs, or Manners of the Country. 

 The state of their Military or Naval establishments, as also 

 those for civil purposes, for the receipt of the revenue, &c. 

 the modes of Government, as Regal, Republican, or Ecle- 

 siastical, with the plans of succession to the chief offices of 

 the State ; all these points demand the attention of the Man 

 of observation, and the more particularly, as they may 

 contribute to the welfare of his own country. 



The Agriculturist will not fail to notice the quantities of 

 arable compared with pasture land, the quantities and 

 kinds of wood cultivated, with their various applications ; 



