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This fact Mr. Bradbury has related to several respectable gen- 

 Elciien, who are fully satisfied of his candour and integrity." — 



" Our experiments were now drawing to a close, when Mr. 

 Steele, from London, entered the room, with a new kind of ap- 

 paratus, which appeared to possess all the necessary powers of 

 fiiifrrupting sight, and yet admitting the needful communication 

 of the dingers with the month which was declared indispensable^ 

 for the pu'ipose of breatiiing on them occasionally when touching 

 the object the colour of which was to be identified. This ap- 

 paratus was notiiing more than a small sheet of pasteboard, out 

 of one side of which a circular piece was cut, so as to admit her 

 neck. Being placed under her chin, the goggles were considered 

 unnecessary, aud were removed ; as there could be no doubt of her 

 possessing tiie faculty of seeing with her fingers, if with this pro- 

 jecting appendage she could describe objects, and tell the colours 

 of them when placed beneath it. It was not our business to de- 

 termine if the Lady could see with her eyes ; our doubts only 

 related to her possessing that faculty with her hands. I think 

 the first trial we made, under this new arrangement, was with a 

 watch. Now it happened that two gentlemen present had gold 

 watches, very nearly alike in size and fashion. One of these 

 was held carelessly, though designedly, at such a distance from 

 lier face with the dial upwards, as to be seen, if she had the 

 power and inclination to look at it. A few minutes elapsed in 

 conversation, when it was proposed to put a watch into her 

 hands, beneath the pasteboard ; and taking the one just alluded 

 to for that purpose, I professed to give it her, but in fact put 

 another watch into her hands, the fingers of which had been pri- 

 vately altered one hour forward. She drew her fingers over the 

 glass, and declared the time to a minute ; but observe, it was not 

 the time of the watch she held in her hand, but the time of the 

 watch / held concealed in mine, the one which had previously 

 beeh placed carelessly at a distance with the dial upwards. This 

 artifice she was not made acquainted with ; and an exclamation 

 of " astonishing " being uttered by some one oi the party, she 

 concluded that every thing so far was right." 



Mr. Daniel Dowling, Master of the Classical, Commercial, 

 and Mathematical School, Mansion House, Highgate, has just 

 published " A Key to the latest Edition of Dr. Hutlon's excellent 

 Course of Mathematics." The Course is in three volumes oc- 

 tavo, and the Key in one handsome volume to correspond. The, 

 lucid manner in which Mr. Dowling has treated the several ma- 

 thematical and philosophical subjects in the Course, demonstrated 

 the various propOv«itions, and investigated the theorems, not only 

 evinces that he possesses a thorough knowledge of those branches, 



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