New Hydraulic Ram. 28% 
34. Bible Society of Athens. 
A Bible Society has been formed at Athens in Greece, 
the direction of which is committed to twelve respectable in- 
habitants, all native Greeks. 
35. Dictionary of Ancient und Modern Greek. 
A Dictionary of the Greek Language, “Ancient and Mod- 
ern, is now in the course of publication at the patriarchal 
press at Constantinople. It will form more than six large 
folio volumes, the first of which has already appeared. This 
important work is under the auspices of the present patriarch 
Gregorios, a native of Peloponnesus, a prelate as virtuou: 
as he is enlightened. acid 
36. College of Chios. 
The grand College of Chios, has already become a kind 
_ of European University. Ambrosios Argentis, one of its pu- 
pils aged 17 years, has just published a discourse on Nayi- 
gation, in which he exhorts with much ardour, his country- 
men to engage in commercial navigation, as an imperisha- 
ble source of riches and prosperity—Jdem. 
97. Fruitfulness of the Potatoc. 
Sn nS 
Marseilles. —There has been brought here from London, 
a kind of potatoe which is a prodigy of vegetation. A single 
tubercule has produced 1,058 kilogrammes (2,160 pounds) 
of potatoes, the quality of which is excellent—Dieppe. _ 
"38. Distillation of Sea Water. 
‘stratum of charcoal.—Iden 
_M. Godin, Rue de Poliveau, No. 21 Paris, has invented 
a new hydraulic Ram of such sim icity as to be exe- 
