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among which ar Many very rare and curious 
works. “The university has two buildings 
Foreign Vaneties. 
always increasi ng contains 150,000 volumes, 
(Sept: 1, 
the Psyche, are employed. Already about 
1,000 miles of a very indented coast haye 
been surveyed, from Ras Moosendem, at 
added, for. the purpose of museums of *”the entrance of the Gulf, to the island of 
natural/and experimental philosophy. »-A 
printing-office and lithographic ‘presses axe 
pera near the university. . There is 
an, elena erg society formed for the exa- 
mination of the candidates for professor- 
ships, masters, &c.; which situations are 
generally ably filled by Poles. The Insti- 
tution for the Deaf and Dumb supports 
twelve poor beings, who are taught various 
works. Sunday schools are open in various 
parts of the kingdom.. Limits have been 
made to civil procedures ; 3 so that, in the 
last four. years, 15,908 causes have been 
determined by justices of peace. Iron rail- 
roads have been constructed from Kalish 
to Brezesc, sixtyGerman miles, in uninter- 
rupted length. High-roads have been con- 
structed in the palatinates of Cracovia, 
Lublin, Plock and Angustow, and 523 
bridges. The country has ceased to be 
tributary to foreign nations, in many impor- 
tant pomts. Their manufactory of cloth 
is sufficient for the wants of the people. 
More than 10,000 foreign manufacturing 
families have peopled new towns. The 
mines of Poland produce, independently of 
silver, copper and lead, the exportation of 
which might be made very considerable, 
100,000 quintins of iron, equal to that of 
Sweden; more than 40,000 quintins of 
zine; and 5,000 of pit-coal. The report, 
in every other par ticular, shews an increase 
and improvement in the manufactures and 
general prosperity of the country that is 
wuly satisfactory. 
NETHERLANDS, 
_ Amsterdam.—A society is modelling here, 
‘ to be called “ The Amsterdam Societ: ty for 
Navigating Steam Vessels,” with the inten- 
tion of running two steam vessels from 
London to Amsterdam, and Amsterdam 
to Hamburg; so that one may pass from 
London to Hamburg, and back again, in 
four days and nights. . At present, in the 
fairest weather, three days and nights are 
required for the simple passage from one 
place. to the other. 
GREECE, 
Learning is making rapid strides among 
the Greeks. Argos possesses a school 
where the Homerian language is taught, 
with history, philosophy, and many other 
languages. .A school on the Lancasterian 
system, established since the revolution, 
contains more than 200 scholars. The 
school at Hydra is about to be re-established 
by the exertions of Bishop Bartholomew ; 
and at. Athens two schools exist, which, 
though extremely large, cannot contain 
near the number of pupils that arrive from 
all pang of the country. 
- PERSIA, 
A survey of the Persian. Gulf, under the 
direction of Captain Maude, is in progress, 
on which two vessels, the Discovery and 
Babrein..o The» greater: part of tie ioe 
here}are" de seribed as ‘basal tig; 
are; inferred to, be, of ol icy 
the highand rugged cape w 
denominated the. Black Mounta 
are two deep and larg é estuari sae 
sheltered, which pie ‘beet nam 
ston’s liilet anil’ Colville’s & Se 
of the smaller valleys on this cob aren a 
high state of cultivation, by avmixed «race 
of Bedouins and Muscat )Arabs..//The 
survey is.expected to, be. extended 'to the 
mouth of the Euphrates, swing. the, iain 
year, trys 
; INDIA, 
Alligator—At Tanjong Tokong, an. ex- 
ceedingly large alligator was’ caught with a 
hook. ‘Its weight was 856" opps its 
‘dimensions : 
Ft. In iFt.! In. 
Extreme length Length of. ‘hind 96 
from snout to bid 6 flipper +++«+.-- 
tail-tip »--+---. Length of, fore 2 0 
Circumference of } 4.0 wit ET sees 
neck «sees ee ees yee heat of fore 
Circumference oy 60 bbaeay any 
middle -------- Ww pe of hind vy 
Length of jaw-+-+-- ‘2°6 Pees stetenes 7 
The animal appeared to be very old, all his 
teeth being completely worn down even 
with the jaw bone. He had not a single 
tooth in his head. A native Indian’ girl 
standing, as the custom of the country is, 
in the water to wash, was attaeked by one 
of these monsters, when, actuated! by that 
strange and unaceountable » feeling «that 
arises from excessive . fear compounded 
with presence of mind, .she drove. her fin- 
gers into the animal’s eyes, which,caused. it 
such agouy of pain, that it relinquished 
hold of its expected prey, and she. escaped, 
from the jaws of an alligator with ouly a 
torn thigh. ’ 
AMERICAL) }01 
Devil's Tree.— There isa shochiehiahntiony 
call the devil's tree growing im America) its 
fruit in a \state of maturity is, elastic,,and 
when dried by the heat. of, the,sim, splits 
with great noise’and.bursts forth, its, gras. 
To this sport of nature, the, tree, owes its 
name; for at the moment of bursting the 
effect of a piece of artillery is produced, the 
noise sueceeds rapidly, and is’ heard’ ‘ata 
great distance. If its frait be-transplanted 
before it is ripe to a ‘dry place, or exposed 
on a chimney-piece to a gentle*heat, itewill ' 
have the same effect, and produce\the same 
phenomenon. ed E sont 
Lafayette’s Land, —Colonel:M‘ 
was deputed to select a township o and 
for General Lafayette, has fixed upon town- 
ship No. 1, North, in range, No. 1, East, 
which joins ;Tallahasee. This township, f 
the Pensacola Gazetie says, is considered to 
be one of the best in the territory, -and its 
worth is a at: from 0% 
dollars. all xuaemecedly 
POLITICAL 
