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continuous flow, would not the noise be far less although still 
aaa beneath the water? I think that the drum must have 
n unmufiled when Father Hennepin visited the Falls. 
In closing these remarks I would express the deep interest 
which I always take in this magnificent scene. 
passed away since my first visit, and with them the recollection 
of much that I have seen of the grand and beautiful in nature. 
But my impressions of N iagara have not been effaced. And 
the more I am absorbed by the glorious view, the more does 
my feeling of its grandeur lose itself in admiration of its beauty. 
New Haven, 1856. : 
Arr, XII.— Biography of Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs; by FRANZ 
VON KoBELL.* 
icine, and, supported by his government, went to Freiberg where 
he heard the eB oF Fete and Werner, and made him- 
self familiar with mining and metallurgy. His intercourse with 
his friend, the celebrated erystallogr ) 
his fellow student at Freiberg, led him to cultivate mineralogy 
any, as is shown in the correspondence of the great F venel, 
Foe ost even where in one case he controverts the views 
uchs,. 
uch confidence in the strength 
of his constitution that he manifested little anxiety about working 
an atmosphere filled with acid vapors and noxious gases. 
Read at th ; ; the Academy of Sciences at Munich, on the 28th 
1856. ‘Trenalnnes ne thie Journal by Prof. 8, W. Jounsos, of the Yale Se- | 
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