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Notice of the Lithographic Art. 168 
You will comprehend the motive for this practice when 1 
shall have explained to you the cropping system adopted in 
these vallies. There is no natural meadow. The leaves of 
the trecs, the trash of the legumes, and a little clover, are 
the oniy feed for the animals. In this country every thing 
is reserved for man, whose numbers have augmented be- 
yond measure under the most ancient civilization,” &c. &c. 
The plant, it will be remembered, of which the finest Leg- 
hora bonnets are made is a wheat; varieties of the summer 
and winter wheat of the Arno. 
Arr. XIX.—WNotice of the Lithographic Art, or the art 
of multiplying designs, by substituting Stone for Copper 
Plate, with introductory remarks by the Editor. 
"Tue reader scarcely needs to be informed that the word 
Lithography, from the Greek Aiéos yee9u according to its 
strict etymology, signifies the art of writing wpon stone ; it 
will be seen, by the article subjoined, that in the actual use 
of the word, it signifies not only the art of writing, but gener- 
ally that of tracing designs of every description, upon ‘stone, 
_and also of transferring these designs to paper by the use of 
the press. The great recommendation of lithography is the 
comparative cheapness and dispatch, with which designs 
are executed by it ; we may perhaps be able hereafter to 
speak with more precision upon these points. All the draw- 
ings in the present number are printed on stone by Messrs. 
Barnet & Doonittir,* whom we are happy to introduce 
to our readers as artists in this comparatively new depart- 
ment. Having availed themselvesin Paris of a regular course 
of practical instruction, they have brought to this country, 
not only the skill but the peculiar materials and press neces- 
sary to the execution of the art, and are now establishing 
themselves in New-York. The designs in this number are, 
by no means, presented as chef-d’euvres in lithography, 
but merely as accurate representations of the objects, with 
sufficient neatness for designs of the class to which they be- 
* Their establishment is at No. 23 Lumber-street, and orders are address- 
edto them there, or through Messrs. A. T. Goodrich & Co. Booksellers, 
Broadway, New-York. 
Vou. FV.....No. 1. D2. 
