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be varied by many circumstances, of which pressure and temperature 
J. Mickie, Esq., of Camden, N. Y., has applied gun-cotton to the 
movement of machinery, and it is said with apparent success. The 
gun-cotton is ignited by electricity. } 
12. Lines of Electric Telegraph in the United States and Canada.— 
From New York to Albany, via the towns on 150 miles. - 
the eastern side of the Hudson, a 
“ . Troy and Albany to Buffalo, . 5 350 
‘* Buffalo to Toronto, : 2 é ‘ 
** New York to Philadelphia, . ; ‘ 88.4 
‘* Philadelphia to Baltimore, . ; ‘ 11g" 
‘* Baltimore to Washington, . : ‘ 40 
‘* Philadelphia to Pittsburg, . . . Ori: vs 
** New York to Boston, via New Haven, 998 « 
Hartford, Springfield and Worcester, } 
‘** Boston to Portland, in Maine, : ‘ 105, * 
‘** — Boston to Lowell, ; , ‘ ’ 26:. * 
‘** Boston to Albany, ‘ ; : ‘ 200 * 
a ** Toronto to Montreal and Quebec, (con- 450 
structing,) } 
gercen. Twenty men are actively engaged in deeply trenching and 
evelling about seven acres of the ground, intended for the immediate 
to deliver to those who want them. For the particulars of titles, terms, 
&c., see the prospectus in our November number and also in the present. 
