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splendor of the gilding; while in brilliancy of colors, and elaborate 
drawings, it is inferior to none. In magnificence and taste, the in- 
ventions are unequalled. The vases, urns, tables, and other furniture, 
are among the most excellent works of art. Some of the paintings 
are exquisite: miniature heads, historical and classical representations, 
birds, animals, landscape, flowers, trees, and every picturesque object 
in art or nature, are executed in a style worthy of the best masters. 
Superb porcelain is made in England, inferior only to the French 
and Dresden, in the whiteness, and infusibility of the ware. 
When the complicated character of porcelain, with all its various 
materials, is considered; the critical adjustment of substances of op- 
posite qualities; the heat to which they are subjected; the varying 
colors, and the fluids in which they are prepared; the elegant de- 
signs—the splendor of the ornaments—the great labor, and the long 
series of processes which enter into the manufacture, it appears evi- 
dent that a perfect porcelain is a masterpiece of both science and art. 
Leaving the dust of the workshops, and following the granite rock 
from its storm-rifted pinnacle through all the transmatations of nature 
and art, until it becomes one of the most beautiful ornaments of the 
saloons of nobles and the palaces of kings; we see realized, the 
golden visions of the Saxon alchemist, who, it is said, rediscovered 
the art* while searching for the philosopher’s stone. Lithographic 
drawings of several celebrated vases are annexed. 
New-York, March, 1834. 
Arr. ll.—Researches respecting the radical of Benzoic Acid; by 
Wholer and Lnebig. 
From the third Vol, of the “ Annalen der Pharmacie,” of R. Brandes, Ph. L. Geiger 
and J. Liebig.—Translated by James C. Booth. 
Wuew in the dark province of organic nature, we succeed in find- 
ing a light point, appearing to be one of those inlets whereby we 
may attain to the examination and investigation of this province, 
then we have reason to congratulate ourselves, although conscious that 
the object before us is unexhausted. With such a view, let us exam- 
ine the following experiments ; which, as it regards their extent and 
connection, present a wide field for cultivation. 
The substance with which we commence our undertaking, “is the 
fluid oil of bitter almonds, distinguished from other similar bod- 
* Long before known in China and Japan. 
