358 Miscellanies. 



this purpose as the periodical press ; and he therefore resolved to es- 

 tablish a periodical work, devoted to the subject of education. 



In order to avoid the evils resulting from the existence of two sim- 

 ilar publications, it was thought best to unite the above work with the 

 American Journal of Education. The property of this Journal has 

 therefore been transferred to Mr. Woodbridge, who is favorably 

 known to the public through his systems of Geography, and the 

 work will hereafter appear under the title of Annals of Education 

 and Instruction, and American Journal of Lyceums and Literary 

 Institutions. 



In its progress, it will contain a detailed account of the Institutions 

 of Fellenberg, derived from actual observation, and from manuscripts 

 communicated by the founder, the introduction to which was publish- 

 ed in a late number of the American Journal — a description of oth- 

 er similar institutions — of schools on the plan of Pestallozzi — of sem- 

 inaries for teachers — and of recent improvements in instruction in 

 Germany and France — together with intelligence concerning the state 

 of schools, Gymnasiums and Lyceums in our own country and oc- 

 casional essays of a speculative and experimental kind. In the lat- 

 ter departments, the editor has received assurance of aid from gen- 

 tlemen who enjoy the confidence of the public, and whose rich ex- 

 perience and important views on the subject of education, he has en- 

 deavored thus to elicit for the benefit of our numerous rising sem- 

 inaries." 



From a long personal knowledge of Mr. Woodbridge, we have 

 full confidence in his talents and resources, and in his zeal in this good 

 cause ; we vv'ish him and his coadjutors full success. — Ld. 



6. Mastodon, near Rochester, JV. Y. 



Extract from a letter from Mr. J. A. Guersnsey, to the Editor, dated Pittsford, Octo- 

 ber 26, 1830. 



I have just procured a piece of a tu.sk found three weeks since in 

 the bank of the Ironduquoit Creek, two and a half miles from this 

 place ; a boy struck a spade against the point of the tusk and broke 

 it off, he then dug parallel to the surface of the earth, about five 

 feet below the sod, but he broke it into five pieces. The entire 

 length of all the pieces was seven and a half feet, and the whole tusk 

 must have measured nine feel. The exposure to the air causing it to 



