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to represent seas and lakes." The land, mountains and rivers, 
are painted with much care on paper, pasted on this covering. 
The two poles are situated, as in miaps of the world, at the 
extremities of the vertical diameter of the sphere. Around 
this diameter are two spiral are which land on three 
little circular galleries, placed one above another, so that 
the spectator, at his pleasure, can =apaiiock any point of the 
sphere that he wishes to examine. his disposition, as con- 
venient as it is ingenious, at first astonishes him. The im- 
posing grandeur of the blue vault which represents seas, the 
irregularity of the masses of land which interrupt their mon- 
otony, the novelty of his situation, all concur to produce a 
sort of stupor and hesitation, from which he is soon relieved 
as he discovers, though in a reversed situation, the parts of the 
world which he has been accustomed to beho = 
The relief of mountains is expressed by 
less prolonged; rivers, by lines of a paler aia ; volcanos 
by a fiery colour. All analogous divisions (and one may 
judge how numerous they are, since France has the names of 
all its Sepesinents and chief places) are designed by similar 
letters. All confusion is avoided, by the manner in which 
the delineations are ma 
an recommend the Georama, with confidence, to the 
friends of science. It will produce both pleasure and instruc- 
tion.—Jdem. 
10. SwitzERLAND. Extension of Education—The 
Nowvelliste Vaudois, (one of the best daily papers published 
in ose “ the 7th of October, states that there has 
been or Canton of a numerous asso- 
ciation ee ike ‘elton of the condition of primary 
schools, and the improvement oo teachers. The number of 
primary schools in the Canton of Zurich, exceeds 400 ; dur- 
ing the last twenty years, the government has devoted 17, 000 
francs to the instruction of teachers; 30,000 in the construc- 
tion of new school-houses ; 27,000 in aid of the 
the poor. Independently of the moderate salaries 
the primary teachers, there exists a fund of 49,500 franc 
destined for the relief of those who have need of dudiable 
aid. 
In the prefecture of Andelfurgen, i in the same Canton, a 
society of teachers has existed for six years, who assemble pe- 
riodically, with the view ef communicating the experience 
