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second for the first five degrees, and for every 10” throughout the quad- 
rant ; but this swells his table to 320 pages. It is believed that Prof. 
wever this matter is all embodied in the larger 
tables, it might have been dispensed with better than any other portion 
of the volume. 
_ Prof. Stanley has next given usa truly valuable traverse table. Hut- 
ton’s table, which does not extend to fractions of a degree, does not 
answer the demands of common surveyors. The ordinary traverse 
lables which extend to quarters of a degree, with distances from 1 to 
100, occupy ninety pages. Prof. Stanley’s table occupies but six pages 
and yields ten times greater precision. e table of meridional parts 
extends to tenths of a mile, and at the end of the volume we have two 
pages filled with useful numbers of, a miscellaneous kind. On the 
‘080 Society, &c. 
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mologies. II{. Pronunciation exhibited and made obvious by the division 
of words into syllables, by accentuation, by marking the sounds of the 
accented vowels when necessary, or by general rules. 1V. Accurate 
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examples of their use, selected from respectable authors, or by familiar 
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_ Considered only as a reprint of Dr. Webster's Dictionary—an ele- 
Gant, accurate and cheap reprint, in a condensed and portable form— 
this book would have strong claims to public favor. But it is more than 
@ mere reprint. To an extent, it is the fruit of independent 
