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splendor of the gilding; while in brilliancy of colors, and elaborate 

 drawings, it is inferior to none. In magnificence and taste, the in- 

 ventions are unequalled. The vases, urns, tables, and other furniture, 

 are among the most excellent works of art. Some of the paintings 

 are exquisite : miniature heads, historical and classical representations, 

 birds, animals, landscape, flowers, trees, and every picturesque object 

 in art or nature, are executed in a style worthy of the best masters. 



Superb porcelain is made in England, inferior only to the French 

 and Dresden, in the whiteness, and infusibility of the ware. 



When the complicated character of porcelain, with all its various 

 materials, is considered; the critical adjustment of substances of op- 

 posite qualities; the heat to which they are subjected; the varying 

 colors, and the fluids in which they are prepared ; the elegant de- 

 signs — the splendor of the ornaments — the great labor, and the long 

 series of processes which enter into the manufacture, it appears evi- 

 dent that a perfect porcelain is a masterpiece of both science and art. 

 Leaving the dust of the workshops, and following the granite rock 

 from its storm-rifted pinnacle through all the transmutations of nature 

 and art, until it becomes one of the most beautiful ornaments of the 

 saloons of nobles and the palaces of kings ; we see realized, the 

 golden visions of the Saxon alchemist, who, it is said, rediscovered 

 the art* while searching for the philosopher's stone. Lithographic 

 drawings of several celebrated vases are annexed. 



New- York, March, 1834. 



Art. III. — Researches respecting the radical of Benzoic Acid ; by 



WKoler and Liebig. 



From the third Vol. of the " Annalen der Pharmacie," of R. Brandes, Ph. L. Geiger 



and J. Liebig. — Translated by James C. Booth. 



Wh 



ing a light point, appearing to be one of those inlets whereby we 

 may attain to the examination and investigation of this province, 

 then we have reason to congratulate ourselves, although conscious that 

 the object before us is unexhausted. With such a view, let us exam- 

 ine the following experiments ; which, as it regards their extent and 

 connection, present a wide Geld for cultivation. 



The substance with which we commence our undertaking, is the 

 fluid oil of bitter almonds, distinguished from other similar bod- 



* Long before known in China and Japan. 



