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» 10. The preservation of Potatoes has been lately held up to . , 
view in France, as the best security against famine. An 
account has been given by Cadet de Vaux, of an establish- 
ment of M. Ternaux at Saint Quen, for the economical 
preservation of grain, potatoes, ac. 
The potatoes are pared, (the parings being given to hogs 
_ and other animals) boiled in steam, spread while hot upon 
_a table, divided by a light instrument, which enables the 
moisture to evaporate, cooled, and then passed through a 
granulating sieve, and thoroughly dried in a stove, con- 
structed advantageously for this purpose. The dry mate- 
rial when taken from the stove has the form of vermicelli. 
It may easily be reduced either to coarse or fine flour, by 
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4 grinding. It is éalled by M. Ternaux polenta, and requires 
nothing but a little warm water and salt, to convert it im- 
mediately into an agreeable and savoury potage. Two ta- 
ble spoonfulls, which cost only the hundredth part of a 
roam aS sufficient, to make two plates of soup. When 
added to bouillon, no time or preparation is necessary, and 
it is superior in this respect, to vermicelli or flour. 
__ At Moulins, 550 individuals reduced to want, were fed 
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ii. Zodiac of Denderah——This remarkable and curious spe- 
cimen of antiquity, transported with so much labor and ex- 
nce from upper Egypt to Paris, has been purchased by the 
ing, and will be placed in a suitable position in the Louvre- 
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Mr. Griscom’ s communications on foreign literature an 
science, excepting the above articles, came too late form 
sertion in the present number; the remainder are una 
voidably amet Epitor. - 
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