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every year from lying to before the strait of Gibraltar without 
power to get out. 
This project is just now submitted to the examination of the 
Spanish government, as well as to some others, such as the 
English and French governments. 
First tdea of an electric telegraph.—This first idea was brought 
forward in the 16th century in an anonymous work published at 
Rouen at that time. The question has already been discu 
here. A discovery has just been made of a letter of a clerk © 
of the alphabet... . You perceive that we could thus facili 
tate the operation; the first movement of the hand might sound 
a bell which would announce that the oracle was about tos 
Bibliography.— Among recent publications by Hachette, at Paris, 
the foliowing : 
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nism oak ‘Dr. Scoutettin; Svo, 420 pp. The 
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