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be retorted, it must be patiently borne, until the country shall decide, 
either that it will sustain no general Repository of Science, or that 
we: will sustain only a better one, than the present. Hh 
The American Journal has undoubtedly, its imperfections, but it. 
is the best which the circumstances of an Individual have enabled 
An eminent foreign Savant, in a letter now in view, writes from 
London to the editor, under date of December 28, 1834—* It is - 
admitted, by all with whom I converse, that the American Journal is 
the best and most original Journal in the English language.” We 
cannot expect the opinion of a partial foreign friend (although a very — 
competent judge) to guide the public sentiment of this country ; nor 
can we exclaim with the Roman Poet, 
* Exegi menumentum ere perennius.” 
Still, when, by the fortune of wer, we shall be eut down and our Bs j 
dishonored flag shall lie in the dust, it may perhaps, be recorded on 
our humble stone, that the leader of a forlorn hope fell in the breach, | ; 
and left it open, that wiser and better men might enter. oa ae 
oe 
Plan.—May we presume again to recommend the simple expe- is 
dient adopted, in case of this Journal in 1829, namely, that each 
subscriber should kindly endeavor to obtain one more. In this man- 
ner with little trouble to any one, the subscription might be soon as” 
it then was, doubled; the work would then, be secure again fora se- 
ries of years, and its capabilities of usefulness would be greatly ex= 
tended. 
In this country, such a work, involving peculiar difficulties, | 
neither be got up, nor sustained, without great effort and persever = a 
ance. Avoiding all local, personal, and party interests and ex- 
citements, it thus entirely foregoes ihe .support afforded by popu- 
lar feeling, and therefore relies, us if has a full right to do, solely, 
_ upon the intelligent, the interested, the patriotic, and the philan- 
thropic. 
For the support of such a work, a is worse than useless, to resort 
* to indiscriminate solicitations. ‘The transient subscriptions, obtained 
in that manner, will produce ae a delusive expectation of support, 
and a certain increase of expense 
