Improved Phantasmagoria Lantern, with a Solar Lamp. 

 The magic lantern, which was formerly used merely to 

 amuse children, by the exhibition of miserable caricatures 

 and grotesque figures, has of late years assumed a different 

 character, by being adapted to the representation of subjects 

 of natural and scripture history, botany, astronomical dia- 

 grams, the costume of different countries, <fec. With the 

 view of rendering the magic-lantern a source of highly in- 

 structive amusement as well as entertainment, the writer has 

 produced, at a considerable expense, a variety of sliders of 

 a very superior order. With these sliders the phantasma- 

 goria lantern will become not only a most amusing and ra- 

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