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the same steam boat can enter lake Morat, and thus establish 

 a communication, rapid and convenient, between the can- 

 tons of Vaud, Berne, Neuchatel and Fribourg. — Idem. 



38. Necrology. — Pestalozzi (Henry,) born at Zurich, the 

 12th of January, 1746, paid the debt of nature, after a short 

 and painful illness, on the 1 7th of February last, at Neuhof, 

 near Brugg, in the canton of Argovie. 



Pestalozzi held the first rank among the philanthropists 

 who aimed at the reformation of the people, through the in- 

 strumentality of education. Exalted virtues, an ardent zeal 

 for the happiness of his fellow creatures, persevering labors 

 in the career in which he had voluntarily engaged, usefuL 

 works which have given him a title to the gratitude of man- 

 kind : we owe him the tribute of a gratitude which we de- 

 light to pay to the memory of the most illustrious benefactors 

 of humanity ; and we shall perform a duty to Pestalozzi, in 

 a detailed notice of his life, his works, and his institutions of 

 education. 



Fgr some years Pestalozzi had witnessed the progressive, 

 decline, and eventually, the complete ruin of his institution, 

 at Yuerdun, on which he had formerly founded his highest 

 hopes. But, if he was not able to end his days in the midst 

 of friends and disciples, whose care and affection would 

 have sweetened his last moments, he was at least able to 

 carry with him to the tomb the consoling certainty, that 

 his examples and lessons will not have been expended in vain, 

 for already many of his pupils, spread over various portions 

 of Europe and America, have obtained, in the application of 

 his method of education, a success which was refused to the 

 venerable Pestalozzi, in his own country, during his long and 

 beneficent career. — Idem. 



39. Progress of Science. — An Atheneum has been esta- 

 blished at Brussels, under the influence and authority of the 

 king, in which are given ten courses of instruction, open gra- 

 tuitously to all classes who seek for knowledge. The Profes- 

 sors have been selected among the most able men in the 

 country, and the letters, it is said, informing them of their 

 appointments, were conceived with a delicacy and nobility of 

 sentiment which are at once an honor to the Monarch who 

 dictated them, and to the philosophers to whom they were 

 addressed. The professorships are, General History, (Le- 



