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he cannot complain of the inaccuracy of the engraver, since 
no engraver is employed. For Landscapes and natural 
History it is equal, if not superior to copper plate, besides 
being much cheaper, and for portraits it is exceedingly 
handsome. 
The facility with which a manuscript, written on paper, 
and with ink prepared for the purpose, is transferred to the 
stone where it serves as a plate to print others from, giving 
fac-similes of the original manuscript, renders it very con- 
venient for circular letters, blank forms, &c. &c. 
Lythography, which has had but a few years of existence, 
and which is hardly known, even by name, in this country, 
has already taken a very distinguished rank among the fine 
and useful arts in Europe. 
The best stone hitherto employed for this purpose is a 
carbonate of lime, about the colour of the light side of a 
razor hone, of a fine grain, a conchoidal fracture, perfectly 
homogeneous, very hard, and susceptible of a high polish. 
It is a little remarkable that no stones have been found of a 
superior quality, to those first employed by Mr. Sennerfel- 
der, and few so good. 
Much has been said about a species of cartons or paste- 
board which Mr. Sennefelder has prepared as a substitute 
for the stone, but, however desireable an acquisition this 
might be to the art, on account of the greater facility of 
transportation, the utility of these cartons has not yet been 
established by any regular series of experiments ; and it is 
certain that, however highly they may be spoken of by the 
learned societies of Paris, where Mr. Sennefelder now re- 
sides, they are not adopted by any of the Lithographers of 
that city. 
Arr. XX.—The Tempest of Sept. 3d, 1821.—Eprtor. 
SomME particulars connected with this tempest seem wor- 
ihy of being preserved, for although they are not unprece- 
dented, they are not so common as to be generally familiar. 
The gale which blew at this place, (New-Haven,) from 
the 5. E. and eventually from the S. and 8. W. gradu- 
ally increased from noon till dark, when it raged with tre- 
mendous violence, and continued till nearly midnight.  I¢ 
