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which have been made of it. The Hebrew Bible is represented by por- 

 tions of an Egyptian manuscript of the fourteenth century, facsimile 

 of the Aleppo Codex, by the first American edition of the Hebrew 

 Bible printed at Philadelphia in 1810; by other well known prints in 

 Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg. The Septuagint or Greek version 

 is represented by facsimiles of the famous Alexandrian and Vatican 

 codices. Following these are copies of the Targum or Aramean version, 

 the Syriac version, the Coptic version (represented by a manuscript), 

 the Ethiopic version, Gothic version, Anglo-Saxon version, the edition 

 of the Latin version or vulgate of St. Jerome, a Spanish- Jewish version, 

 the Arabic version (represented by a manuscript), and the translation 

 of Saadia. 



The New Testament is represented in the Vatican and Alexandrian 

 codices, already mentioned, as well as in the Sinai tic and by the first 

 American edition printed at Worcester m 1800. 



Finally, there is a most interesting and valuable work, consisting of 

 a New Testament arranged in historical order by clippings from the 

 Latin, Greek, French, and English Testaments, all arranged by Thomas 

 Jefferson. This book contains a concordance of the verses used and a 

 number of notes scattered throughout, all in Jefferson's handwriting, 

 and is said to have been arranged by him for translation into the 

 Indian languages, so that the Gospels might be presented to the 

 Indians in a simple form. 



DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY. 



Alcove 1ST was occupied by objects designed to show the more impor- 

 tant stages of improvement through which the appliances now in use 

 for the conveyance of men and goods from place to place have passed 

 before the present high standards of mechanical efficiency were attained. 

 These were selected with the special purpose of illustrating the impor- 

 tant influence exercised by the South Atlantic States upon the early 

 history of internal improvement in America and the inauguration of 

 trans-Atlantic commerce by steam. The theory upon which they are 

 arranged is thus described by Mr. J. E. Watkins: 



The origin of many of the contrivances now utilized by man to facil- 

 itate individual movement or to transport objects too heavy to be car- 

 ried by man belongs to a period so remote in prehistoric time that no 

 attempt to arrange aboriginal water or land vehicles in a definite 

 chronological sequence has been made. 



Boats and ships. — Primitive boats, such as the catamaran and dugout 

 canoe, are placed at the beginning of the series, which contains among 

 the craft propel led by poles or oars the Ohio Ei ver flatboat and keel boat, 

 by the instrumentality of which the settlement of the Southern and 

 Western States was promoted during Colouial and Revolutionary times. 

 Among the sail ships are to be found the Sally Constant, from which the 

 first English settlers in the United States landed at Jamestown, Va., in 

 1609, and the Mayfloiver, which brought the Puritans to Plymouth 

 Pock eleven years later. 



The American steamboat. — The fine rivers of America stimulated the 



