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15 degrees. We understand that he has made large collec- 

 tions of plants and minerals, particularly of geological speci- 

 mens. The Bciffin left the coast of Greenland on the 27th of 

 August, soon after encountering a tremendous storm, in which 

 the Dundee of London was dismasted. — Liverpool Advertiser. 



RUSSIAN VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. 



St. Peter shir gh^ Sept. 6. — Captain Wassiliew, who com- 

 manded the two vessels that have just returned from their voyage 

 of discovery, has perfoi-med great services to geography. He 

 discovered in the great ocean a group of inhabited islands : 

 passed through Behring's Straits, and reached a higher latitude 

 than Cook ; determined the true position of North America, 

 from Icy Cape to the peninsula of Alaska, and found to the 

 north of it another inhabited island. 



JUNCTION OF THE AMERICAN LAKES WITH THE ATLANTIC 

 OCEAN. 



This magnificent work, calculated to improve prodigiously 

 the commerce of New York, goes on nobly to its completion. 

 In a few months more, by means of this Grand Western Canal, 

 our vessels will pass from the ocean to our inland seas. In 

 executing this work, which does great honour to its projector, 

 nearly ten thousand men are said to be employed. We are 

 also uilbrmed that another canal, about forty miles in length, 

 is intended to be cut from Providence to Worcester, which 

 will still further facilitate the transit of goods from New York 

 to the interior of Massachusets, — American Paper. 



WOOL EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURES OF FRANCE. 



" Formerly, and even to the present time, the clothiers sought 

 out for long and sound wools, in the expectation of finding in 

 them proportionally less of gi'ease and foreign matter, and more 

 freedom in tlie staple, but also with die view of giving more 

 strength and firmness to their cloths. The very reverse now 

 takes place. In order to maintain a competition widi tlie cloths 

 of England, they rc()uirc only such wools us are short, weak 

 and silky: and 'they luanutkcture only fine and slight cloth, 

 soft and silky, which wiU scarcely last so long as the transient 

 taste which has given rise to them. 



" This predilection has produced a change in our flocks; and 

 the grower of the raw material, who seeks for a ready sale, 

 hiLS l)een compelled to conform to the desires of the manufac- 

 turers and tlie dejiraved Uiste of the consumer. In order to 

 diminish the length of their wool, thev have been tempted to 

 shear their sheep twice in the year, ailowing seven months for 

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