Notice of the Lithographic Art. 169 
You will comprehend the motive for this practice when I 
shali have explained to you the cropping system adopted in 
these vallies. There isno natural meadow. The leaves of 
the trees, the trash of the legumes, and a little ie are 
the only feed for the animals. In this country every thing 
is reserved for man, whose numbers have augmented be-~ 
yond measure under the:most ancient civilization,” &c. &c. 
The plant, it will be oe of which the finest Leg- 
horn bonnets are made is a wheat; varieties of the summer 
and winter wheat of the Pete 
Art. XIX mr ‘of the Lithographic Art, or the art 
of multiplying designs, by substituting Stone for Copper 
Plate, He introductory remarks by t Editor 
Te reader ae needs to be informed that the word 
Lithography, from the Greek dis eau according to its 
strict etymology, signifies the art of writing upon stone ; it 
will be seen, by the article subjoined, that in the actual use 
of the word, it signifies not only the art of writing, but gener- 
ally that of tracing designs of every description, upon stone, 
and also of transferring these eenet to a: er by the use of 
the press. The great recommendati hee. eae is. ~ 
speak with more precision upon these points. All the draw- 
ings in the present number are printed on stone by Messrs. 
Barner & Doouitrrie,* whom we are happy to introduce 
to our readers as artists in this comparative i new depart- 
ment. Having availed themselves in Parisof a regular course 
of practical instruction, they have brought to this country, 
not only the skill but the peculiar materials and press neces- 
sary to the execution of the art, and are now establishing 
themselves in New-York. ‘The designs in this number are, 
by no means, presented as chef-d’euvrés in lithography, 
but merely as accurate representations of the objects, with 
sefiicient neatness for designs of the class to which they be- 
-_#* Their establishm 
“qlto then there trough Mer A. Tr. Gooirich. rs Co ochelieey, 
Ys 
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