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equals 633,644°36 cubic miles, or is equal to the mass of the Alps 
= -chlorid of magnesium, oe Leu ‘80 cubic miles; the lime 
,339°44 cubic miles. “The supposes the’ mean depth to be but 
‘meters, as estimated by Mom botde RGitiog with Laplace, t 
Yee oy te is 1000 meters, which is more probable, the mass 
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ipt of the futher * Wituram Grecory, WD. D., oe from the Eng? 
lition, by n N, Horsrorp, A.M., Rumford Professor in the 
niversity at Carobriiige. Lowell, D. Bixby & Co, 1848, 12mo., pp. 219. 
iret Bor orsford has conferred an acceptable service in promptly bring- 
5 out this edition of the last work of the great chemist whose name ii 
ne title fully in ates the topics of discussion—which it is 
ss to say are handle with a master’s hand. Some of the new 
oWS O1 way esh fluids and upon endosmosis have already been pre- 
ented to the —~ of this Journal al. (See vol. v, p. 415.) The two 
* epi arate topics named in the title are the subject of aca brag me 
— der two heads, and fore | in fact two separate treatises. olume 
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