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Miscellaneous In elligence, 2 A4At 
at *. tion of it appears to be extant. Soon after this, is 
en, and Ampére, discovered the Eepoues of 7 ricity, in de- 
ting the magnetic needle from the netic a position 
=. east and west, or at right ae with it. This ‘laid the foundation 
for the several sytems of telegraphic communication which he should 
then proceed to describe. In 1837, Professor Wheatstone had greatly 
improved his telegraph by fae - number of needles to five, 
which have since been r i tot The: lecturer then proceeded 
to eecaees ‘the various. modes. of mimpaedinaieiaeas adopted by Bain, 
Wheatstone, Brett and Little, tod Gamble and ms the latter of which 
worked entirely by electro-magnetism. 
[Prof. Morse’s method, brought forward in 1 1837, should have been 
| added; it is far better than any-here mentioned, and:is beginning to be 
adopted in England 
; 2. The Dead: Sea eens (Sgughern Literary Messenger, for 
September, 1848.)—Th 
countering many difficult 
reac 
. With the two ‘ Fanniés’”* they _— their. course down the Jordan. 
* There were many. dangerous rapids in their Aria bo ; but they ar safely 
- reached at last the Dead. Seat We continue this n 
ns.from an — article i in the Southey Titerary Messenger f 
Fs 1848. 
The water of the 1 river [Jordan] was sweet to withina fow hundred 
yards of its mouth. , ‘The waters of the sea were devoid of smell, but 
shay were einen. and nauseous 
“As we rounded to the westward, ” i Eeits Lifiiehs “ the agita- 
ted sea. pinapt tadtensbeht.of6 foaming, brine. ‘The spray, separatingvas 
™ Ce ae — 
it fell, left-incru ns of salt upon our faces and clothes, and while 
} it caused a pri i earn wherever it touched. the mae — above 
% all exceedingly painful to the eyes 
“The boats heavily laden, struge gled sluggishly at ae bat Pa 
wind freshened to a gale, jbeémed 2 s if the bows, so 
| water, were encountering the sledge negiere 1 “the Thane tend of 
the Opposing waves of an agitated sea 
‘“ At the expiration of an hour and a Y half, we were driven: 7 a -_ 
ward, and 1 was compelled to bear away for the shore 
Were near to it, and while I was weighing the practicability of isn 
the boats through the surf, the wind suddenly ceased and with t the 
sea a td fell—the ponderous quality of the water Stine it to ale 
n as the agitating power had ceased to act. Within five — 
there was a perfect calm, and the sea. was unmoved even by 
tions. At 8 p.m, weary and’ AE wewteclied a = of ial 
dezvous upon the northwestern shor 
nny Mason,” and Fanny Skinner,”’ the names of ‘Der two boats. ‘The 
former of copper, and the latter of iron. 
t The descent of the Jordan i ef Leg anne Sy" Lieut. Lynch, at six oa per mile, 
“The great secret of the 46 ression betw cms — meses: re ead Sea, is 
solved on the opin mg? of L hn ch, by a pe ae In 
a distance of sixt nates Lynch, river ade f oickg gto a course of about 
two hiupdred aig ithin that distance he . his party ged sda! no ‘less 
than twenty-seven threatening rapids, besides a f less descen 
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