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the fact. Where others can see nothing but chance, we can perceive 

 a wise and obvious design, displayed in the original adaptation of the 

 several races of men to those varied circumstances of climate and 

 locality, which, while congenial to the one, are destructive to the 

 other. The evidences of history and the Egyptian monuments go to 

 prove that these races were as distinctly stamped three thousand 

 five hundred years ago as they are now ; and, in fact, that they are 

 coeval with the primitive dispersion of our species. 



Bengal Isinglass. 



The following certificate relative to the quality of Bengal 

 Isinglass, must be very gratifying to those who are interested 

 in the introduction of new staple productions of this country. 

 It would appear from the advices received on the subject by 

 the last Mail, that the article from the first proved superior 

 to what it was acknowledged to be by buyers, who seem to 

 have been chiefly anxious to obtain it as cheap as possible. 



It may be unreasonable to blame them for this, although 

 they have undoubtedly counteracted their own interests by 

 depreciating the article below its fair value, as compared 

 with the Isinglass of other countries. The samples sent 

 into the market, though large, were only submitted experi- 

 mentally in order to ascertain the quality of the article, and 

 the unbiassed opinion of dealers and manufacturers as to its 

 real value. Had the buyers and manufacturers received 

 them in this light, and fairly and readily acknowledged 

 the result in the first instance, it would have led at once to 

 the necessary steps being taken in Bengal, where the experi- 

 ments originated, in order to ascertain the nature and source 

 of the supply. 



At present, this great practical object, like some others, 

 seems likely to be allowed to stand over for a time until 

 revived again by accident, and this merely for want of 



