9/4^.^ 



mmmmmmmmmmmif^mmmmmmm^mm^mmmi^m^m^mmm' 



AMERICAN JOURNAL 



SCIENCE AND ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, 



Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, &c. in Yale College; Corresponding Member of the 



- Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Cortimerue, ofLondou j iMember of the Hcyal 



Mineralogical Society of Dresden; of the Imperial Agricultural So- 



i.'iety of Moscow ; Honorary Member of the Natural History 



Society of Belfast ; and of various. Literary and 



Scientific .Societies in America. . 



VOL. IX. No. 1 February 1825. 



NEW-HAVEN . 



PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BYS. COl^rvEllSE, FOR THE EDITOR. 

 SOLD BY THE PUBLISHER; BY E. LITTELt, 



PHILADELPHIA, AND TRENTOS, N.J.; AND 



By liezekiah Howe, New-Haven; Davis &. Force, Washington, (^D. C; 

 Huntington & Hopkins, Hartford ; Cuininings&. Hilliard, Boston ; Good- 

 ale Glazier h Co. Hallowel, Maine; A. T. Goodrich, New-Yorli ; Caleb 

 Atwater, Circleville, Ohio; Thomas J . Ray, Angusfa, Ga.; Whipple & 

 Lawrence, Salem, Mass.; Edward J. Coale, Baltimore ; B.D. Plant, 

 Columbia, S. C. ; Miller & Hutching, Providence, R. I. ; Thomas R. 

 Williams, Newport, (R. I.) ; William T. Williams, Savannah, Geo. ; Luke 

 LooKiis, Pittsbu'rgh, Pa.; Daniel Stone, BiunswicJc, Me. ; Professor D. 

 Olmsted, Chapel Hill College, N. C. ; John Miller, Jfo. 69, Fleet-street, 

 London. 



# 



# 

 # 



# 



* 

 * 

 # 



# 

 # 

 # 



* 



# 

 # 

 # 

 # 

 # 



m 

 m 



* 

 # 



# 

 * 

 * 

 m 

 # 



jifc jfc jhjfc jfc jfcjfc jjf jfc jt ji' jfc jfc^jfe^jfc4fc^jifcjk-jfc.^^ ^ ^^ jfc ji. ji> jfc .u. g.. ^ 



m 



