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name of an article in full. These divisions will generally be’ 
found to contain as many articlesas usually comprehend the 
wants of afamily. Should any article, however, be wanted, 
not expressed by words on the dial, it may with ease be 
communicated, by turning the index to the letters requisite 
to make out the name of the article. 
By the power of the alphabet, it will readily be seen that 
the Domestic Telegraph may be rendered the medium of 
communication to an indefinite extent—For the’ sake of 
convenience, by an understanding between the parties, 
words may be so abreviated, that certain letters shall stand 
as their representatives. Thus the names of domestics may 
be designated by the initials, and the figure may likewise be 
applied to similar purposes. By these arrangements it not 
only appears, how easily domestic wants may be supplied, 
and private communications held, by the use of the Domes- 
tic Telegraph,—but that it may be made to facilitate the con- 
veyance of intelligence through all kinds of buildings—such 
as stores, ware-houses, counting-rooms, &c. &c. &c. 
_ The simple structure of the Telegraph enables the inven- 
torto furnish the common one at the low price of five dol- 
lars ;—-while from its form, it is peculiarly adapted to 
ducstate the most elegant rooms—the ornamental ones will 
be furnished proportionally low. 
'N.B. No. 2 inthe annexed drawing, represents a bell- 
action applied to the same purpose as bell-action No. 1, and 
is connected by the pinion, e. to the wheel D. at 4. 
~The inventor proposes placing the more costly ones in: 
pedestals, vases, &c. &c. as chimney or table ornaments.— 
Mr. Pearson’s stand is in Water-street, Boston. 
Arr. XI,—* Account of the Earthquake at Kutch, on the 
16th of June, 1819. Drawn up from published ‘and un- 
published letters from India.” From the Pfinbureh Phi- 
losophical Journal, No. 5, June 1820. 
‘Tue western coast of India has been ee by an earth-. 
quake, which has spread desolation and famine over a great 
extent of country ; and whose destructive effects will be seen. 
