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and obey his orders, whatever may be his age. They are 

 a pastoial people; ihey purchase every year in Transylva- 

 nia and Moldavia, flocks of sheep which they fatten in the 

 summer, and sell them afterward in the market of Han- 

 nasalva, or in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia. Many of 

 them are waggoners, and transport wine and leather to Po- 

 land, Russia, Prussia, and Austria- The Scotacks never 

 make war against the other tribes, on which account they 

 have preserved their dialect free from the mixture of for- 

 eign idioms. — Rev. En. Feb. 1822. 



33. Geneva. — A young lady born blind, but distinguish- 

 ed by her talents and amiable disposition, imagined that if 

 some mechanic would invent a printing press adapted to 

 the use of the blind, she could communicate her thoughts 

 by that means to her distant friends. She imparted this 

 idea to Francis liuber, the celebrated writer on Bees, who 

 as it is well known, is also blind. Immediately by the 

 help of his domestic, Claude Lechet, a man endowed with 

 uncommon mechanical talents, Huber invented and con- 

 structed a press, which he sent to the young lady, with an 

 assortment of types. After a very short apprenticeship, 

 she was able to enjoy in perfection this precious method 

 of communicating her thoughts We have seen a letter of 

 thirty-three lines addressed to her benefactor, composed 

 and printed by herself, with common ink, without any fault 

 or typographical irregularity. — Idem. 



24. The German Language appears to be making rapid 

 progress in Italy, and especially in Lombardy. Gratui- 

 tous professorships are every where erected. At the Ly- 

 ceum of Milan, more than 200 pupils frequent the German 

 course, and nearly 30U learn the language in other schools. 

 The number of persons who are enabled to read the best 

 German works, amounts, it is said, in that city, to 5000. 



2,5. Rome. — The celebrated Abbe Mai, has discovered, 

 it is said, some classic manuscripts which he thinks will 

 probab<y prove as interesting as the treatise of Cicero De 

 Repuhlica. He hopes soon to publish a part of them. 



