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centigrade, above the heat of the boiler. These plugs to bc 

 stamped with the degree at which they are fusible. — Bulletin 

 Univers. Avril 1824. 



53. American Geography. — A Geography of the United 

 States has just been published in Germany, in one volume, 

 of 1200 pages, in which the author has availed himself of the 

 latest information, such as the geographical and statistical 

 atlas of Carey. The work concludes with an alphabetical 

 table of 130 pages. "This table," says the reviewer, 

 "shows how fond the Americans are of particular names. 

 We find that there are already in the country, twenty Fair- 

 fields, ten La Fayettes, without reckoning two Fayettevilles, 

 sixFrankforts, eight Lancasters, nineteen Monroes, forty-two 

 Franklins, and fifty-five Washingtons ! What confusion will 

 one day arise, when all these places shall have acquired some 

 importance ? It will be necessary to recommend to corres- 

 pondents to mark their letters with the name of the state and 

 the county, audit is impossible that 55 Washingtons shall not 

 confound geographers, and set the clerks of post-offices into 

 an ill humour with the great man who has left his name to so 

 many towns and villages." — Rev, Ency. Jan. 1824. 



54. Georama. — An establishment under this title has been 

 erected in the boulevard de la Chaussee d'Antin, Paris, con- 

 sisting of a hollow sphere of forty feet in diameter, within 

 which is laid out a general map of the world, executed by the 

 best artists. A spiral staircase ascends to three circular 

 and insulated balconies, whence the spectators can view 

 every part of the sphere, even in it most minute details. — 

 BuL Univers. 



55. Deaf and Dumb. — Observations de deux sourdes el 

 muettes, &LC or " observations on two deaf and dumb persons 

 who hear and speak, proving that many of the deaf and dumb 

 may enjoy the same benefit.'' A pamphlet under this title, 

 published in Paris, forms the fourth memoir relative to dis- 

 eases of the ear, by Dr. Deleau, jun. of the faculty of that city. 

 It consists chiefly of a report made to the Academy of Sci- 

 ences by M. M. Pelletan and Percy, in December 1822, and 

 of two observations made upon two young girls, one nine, and 

 the other eleven years of age, cured of deafness, and restored 



