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nists, nor the harmonious periods of the most eloquent writers, 
have succeeded in imaging to the European mind, features of 
which there exists no model in the whole compass of its acquire- 
ments. How, in fact, can words delineate that luxuriance of 
vegetation, that variety of forms, those wonderful contrasts^ 
which excite to admiration the most indifferent spectator. An 
able pencil alone could succeed in delineating some of those ma- 
jestic beauties ; and this has been done by M. the Count de 
Clarac, with a degree of perfection to which we had scarcely 
considered it possible to attain. Without being a botanist, he 
has seized the character of each plant, and has given to all the 
species which he has represented their peculiar port and grace. 
The wild fig-trees present themselves with their arches, the mi- 
mosas with their finely divided foliage ; the arborescent ferns 
and palms with their simple and elegant forms ; the flexible stem 
of the bignoniae, bauhiniae and cissi bend into festoons, twist in- 
to cords, and closely -tie together the neighbouring plants ; the 
bamboos shoot up to a prodigious height ; the cecropiae display 
their digitate leavj^s ; the balisier shows its buds, and the para- 
sitic plants iuvest the fallen trunks with a new covering. In a 
word, every thing is beautiful in this design, because every thing 
is in strict accordance with nature ; and it is to be wished that 
it may soon be followed by some others of those with which the 
portfolio of the author is filled. — Bullet. Universe!. 
Art. SJ^^.—List of Patents granted in Scotland from ^th 
December 1823 to \0th March 1824. 
O Archibald Buchanan of Catrine Cotton- works, 
one of the partners of the house of Janies Finlay and Co. mer- 
chants in Glasgow, for an improvement in machinery hereto- 
fore employed in spinning-mills in the carding of cotton and 
other wool, whereby the top cards are regularly stripped and 
kept clean by the operation of the machinery, without the agency 
of hand labour.” Sealed at Edinburgh 15th December 1823. 
34. To Thomx\s WoLiiick Stansfjeld of Leeds, county of 
York, worsted manufacturer ; Henry Briggs of Laddenden- 
foot, parish of Halifax, said county, worsted manufacturer ; 
William Prichard of Leeds, engineer ; and William Bar- 
