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34. Bible Society of Athens. 



Jl Bible Society has been formed at Athens in Greece, 

 the direction of which is committed to twelve respectable in- 

 habitants, all native Greeks. 



35. Dictionary of Ancient and Modern GreeTc. 



A Dictionary of the Greek Language, Ancient and Mod- 

 ern, is now in the course of publication at the patriarchal 

 press at Constantinople. It will form more than six large 

 folio volumes, the first of which has already appeared. This 

 important work is under the auspices of the present patriarch 

 Gregorios, a native of Peloponnesus, a prelate as virtuous 

 as he is enlightened. 



36. College of Chios. 



The grand College of Chios, has already become a kind 

 of European University. Ambrosios Argentis, one of its pu- 

 pils aged 17 years, has just published a discourse on Navi- 

 gation, in which he exhorts with mucli ardour, his country- 

 men to engage in commercial navigation, as an imperisha- 

 ble source of riches and prosperity.— /liew. 



37. Fruitfulness of the Potatoe. 



Marseilles. — There has been brought here from London, 

 a kind of potatoe which is a prodigy of vegetation. A single 

 tubercule has produced 1,058 kilogrammes (2,160 pounds) 

 of potatoes, the quality of which is excellent. — Dieppe. 



38. Distillation of Sea Water. 



P. Nicole an apothecary of Dieppe has succeeded in dis- 

 tilling sea water so as to deprive it of the disagreeable odour 

 ivhich it is so apt to retain. This he has effected by causing 

 the vapour to ascend through a stratum of charcoal. — Jdem^ 



39. JVeiv Hydraulic Ram. 



M. Godin, Rue de Poliveau, No. 21 Paris, has invented 

 a new hydraulic Ram of such simplicity as to be easily exe- 



