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of future communications, it would be, that those of a scientific 
nature should not be diminished, while those relating to the 
arts, to agriculture, and to domestic economy, should be in- 
creased; we particularly solicit the communications of practi- 
cal men versed in the useful and ornamental arts, and they will 
be acceptable should they not even be clothed in a scientific 
dress. 
Arrangements have been made for the reception of an in- 
creased number of the best European Journals, both from the 
continent and from Britain; they have already begun to arrive, 
and we hope to give in future numbers, more full details of 
foreign scientific intelligence, although it is true that this spe- 
cies of information has hitherto been stinted, not from poverty 
of materials, but from the pressure of original American com- 
munications. 
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portion of the United States, an inattention to punctual payment, 
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