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travels in Asia Minor, and other works. 
Mr. G. in connection with a professor 
of mechanics on the continent, bas at 
length solved the long considered pro- 
blem of propelling by STEAM, carriages 
capable of transporting merchandise, 
and also passengers upon common roads 
without the aid of horses. The actual 
construction of such a carriage is now 
proceeding at the manufactory of 
Messrs. Bramah, and its appearance in 
action may be expected to take place 
in the course of the spring. We shall 
endeavour to obtain a drawing of this 
carriage when completed, and furnish 
our readers with such other particulars 
as may merit their attention. The 
power to be applied in this machine is 
equal to that of six horses, and the 
carriage altogether will be twenty-eight 
feet in length, running upon three inch 
wheels, and equal to the conveyance of 
three and a half tons, with a velocity of 
frum three to seven miles per hour, 
varied at pleasure. All our intelligent 
readers will be sensible of the vast im- 
_portance, in a political and social sense, 
of the introduction of such machines 
on all our great roads. The saving in 
carriage of goods, will be fifty per cent. 
and for passengers inside fares will be 
taken at outside prices. The universal 
importance of this great triumph of 
the mechanical arts, has led Mr. Grif- 
fith to take out patents in Austria and 
France, where the governments have 
honoured themselves by their liberal 
attention and special patronage, and 
one carriage has actually been launched 
at Vienna, and operates with success. 
By availing himselfof various*improve- 
ments, in the transfer, regulation and 
economy of force, all the usual objec- 
tions are removed, such as the ascent 
of hills, securing a supply of fuel and 
water ; and in fine, the danger of ex- 
plosion is prevented, not only by the 
safety valve, but by the distribution of 
the steam into tubes, so as to render 
any possible explosion wholly unim- 
ortant. Every carriage will be pro- 
vided with a director of the fore wheels 
sitting in front, and with a director of 
the steam apparatus sitting in the rear, 
and the body of the vehicle will be situ- 
ated between the fore-wheels and the 
machinery. 
Shortly will be published, in one 
handsome volume, a Mother’s Portrait, 
sketched after her decease, for the be- 
nefit of her children, by their surviving 
parent. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[Feb. J, 
) 
Early in the ensuing month will be 
published, Specimens of the American 
Poets: with biographical and critical 
notices, and a preface. 
Mr. CHILDREN has in the press a 
translation of Professor Berzelius’ work 
on the use of the Blowpipe in Chemical 
Analyses, aid Mineralogical Investi- 
ation, with notes and other additions 
by himself. It will form an octavo 
volume and be illustrated with engrav- 
ings. 
Mr. Peter NiIcHOoLson’s Elements 
of Mathematics, which have been 
nearly seven years in the press, will 
be published early in February, in a 
large volume of 900 pages, octavo, with 
a separate key for the use of tutors. 
In mathematics, this work will cor- 
respond in utility with Walkingame’s 
and Joyce’s works in Arithmetic. 
It is our painful duty to notice that 
cases of small pox, after vaccination, 
continue to multiply in a degree which 
calls for the formal examination and 
impartial report of the faculty, and 
perhaps even of the legislature. The 
Editor of this Miscellany was the first 
public writer who espoused the cause 
of vaccination, yet he prefers the cause 
of truth; the circumstance of a son of 
his own, who was vaccinated by Dr. 
Jenner, in 1802, having recently had 
the small pox with great severity, after 
the first approach which he had toa 
variolous subject, has led the Editor to 
make enquiries which terminate in the 
preceding opinion. He discovers that 
in some cases, whole families, many 
ee subsequent to their vaccination, 
have communicated the variolous dis- 
ease to one another. It has been sug- 
gested that a general re-vaccination 
would be adviseable; but the subject 
ought to be gravely investigated, and 
the best remedy advised by those high 
authorities in the profession, who have 
given their sanction to the new prac- 
tice. 
Public Men of all Nations: contain- 
ing above 2000 lives of living public 
characters, with 150 engraved portraits, 
is far advanced in the press, and will 
be published in February. It will 
forin three volumes the size of Debrett’s 
Peerage. 
An additional volume to the Elegant 
Extracts will speedily be nabislid. in 
prose, by W. RYAN. 
The same author announces by snb- 
scription, a Compendium of the Law 
of Nature and of Nations. 
Lieut. 
