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MIST. 



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print ng.prw*. a hundred ream* of paper, six owt. of type, and engaged 

 a printer for the mission. In 1714 the inianunariw had published 

 thirty-four different work* in the Malabar language, ami fourteen other*, 

 written by CMholia iniionan>a, were ueed by their scholar* and 

 convert*. 



The Mormrian miarintif ffMnny^nt^ in 1731. and were supported with 

 singular activity ami pereeTeraaoe. Count Zinecndorf , the founder of 

 the Moravians, or United Brethren, whila attending the coronation of 

 Christian VI. at Copenhagen, eaw two native* of Ureenland who had 

 been baptised by Kgede, who bail born sent thither in 1781 by the 

 Danish aocietr. and he hoard with regret that the government was on 

 the point of auindonins the mission in that country. lie exerted him- 

 elf, and with the asaiataneo of the Brethren iiieceeif ully established 

 miaaiooa in Ureenland, ai also in the Weat India Islands, Lapland, 

 Tartary, Algiers, CJuiana, and in North America, for the Indians, 

 though experiencing considerable persecutions from the European 

 eetUer* in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Mew Jersey, and other places. The 

 effort* of the Brethren were directed to many other places with various 



In 1742 the Brethren residing in London formed themselves into a 

 " Society for the furtherance of the Gospel." This Society wa* revived 

 in 1818. 



Aa it is manifestly impossible to detail all the operations of the 

 various societies, we confine ourselves to giving the following table of 

 the date of their institutions, an outline of the places to which their 

 chief effort* are directed, and the amount of the last annual income of 

 each, wherever it can be obtained : 



UNITED KINUDOM. 



give the reeeipte, but the American Board of Foreign Mission*, and 

 the General Assembly of the Preabyteri .-. Mission, have the 



largest income* among the societies, of the United State* ; the receipt* 

 of the first ranging betwixt "0,0001 and 80.000/. year ; those of the 

 noond betwixt 40,000*. and 50,000*. All the other* are small, n 

 the annual incomes exceeding 10,00<V., and some are lees than lOOOf. 

 Of the continental miasiotM, the United Brethren and Berlin Missionary 

 Society are the chief ; of these the income* reach nl ' each, 



while the total of all the rest does not much exceed that sum. The 

 " Institut pour la Propagation do la Foi," which was established at 

 n 1 V J'J, and whose chief branches are at Lyon and Paris, pub- 

 liaho* yearly reports, from which it appears that the missionary 

 labours include Great Britain and Ireland, British America, Australia, 

 the United States, India, Ceylon, China, with other place* in each 

 quarter of the world. Their income range* betwixt 160,000/. nnd 

 160,000/. a year. 



CosrrnEirTAL. 



Of the miwionary societies of the Continent and America we do not 



AMERICA. 



In addition to missionary labours, many of the societies of the 

 United Kingdom hare caused to be produced and printed transhtions 



ires nnd other works into the native languages. > 

 of most of these will be found under Bmu: SIR-HIT 



MIST. The vapour of \vntcr, when mixed with air of the satm' nr 

 a higher temperature, is inviulile; but when the t<'injH>rnture of the 

 ah" i* reduced below that of the vapour, the vapour beo. 

 nnd forms a miV. Watvr, in the state of vapour, is continually rising 

 into the atmosphere at all the usual t< nip i.itures. At nud even 1>. 1 \v 

 the freeaing-point water evaporate*, and icv nnd unnw. in .1 dry atmos- 

 phere, gradually dimppear without becoming seiHilily li.iuid. Hut as 

 heat is the solo cause of the convention of water into vapour, the 

 quantity produced other thinga remaining the same, is in |'i"ininion 

 to the temperature; to that in very hot weather the air in nut 

 mturated with vapour, and in colil weather ev.-iipontion is slow: Unix, 

 more vapour in the air in summer than in v. inter, and in hut 

 countries than in teni|>er.ite climates, in all cases v. ir sur- 



faces of water are exposed to the sun's rays. Indeed, it ha* been found 



