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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
Artificial Diamonds. —At a. recent meeting of the Academie 
des Sciences, a letter was read from M. Gannel, stating the result of 
his inquiries into the action of phosphorus brought into contact with 
carburet of pure sulphur. Having occasion to prepare a large quan¬ 
tity of carburet of sulphur, M. Gannal conceived the idea of endea¬ 
vouring to separate the sulphur of this product in order to procure a 
pure carbon. Phosphorus was the material he employed, and which 
by entering into combination with the sulphur, the carbon was set at 
liberty in the shape of small crystals, possessing all the properties of 
the diamond, especially that of scratching the hardest bodies. 
Novel mode of Packing Game.^— If it be not a departure from 
your plan, I think a vacant corner of your entertaining and instruc¬ 
tive miscellany might be well occupied (in the absence of more im¬ 
portant information) by the insertion of the following singular mode 
of sending a present of game to a landlord. A highly respectable 
young farmer in my neighbourhood, took a turnip from his field, and 
having scraped out the inside, enclosed in it a Hare, a Rabbit, a brace 
of Pheasants, and a brace of Partridges ; these he covered in with the 
slice he cut oft’ the top, and sent them to his landlord. Not a feather 
was plucked, and the novelty of the circumstance must have pleased 
the landlord, if it were only in proof of the skill and ingenuity of his 
tenant. G. S. Somerset. 
Windsor, Oct. 6th, 1832. 
Further Testimonials on the Utility of the Patent 
Gas-Furnace of Messrs. Chanter and Co. —In the furnaces 
on this patent, three desirable objects are ensured. The perfect 
combustion of the fuel; the gradual regulation of the fire, by which 
a constant and uniform temperature is ensured; and the equable 
application and distribution of heat. How far it answers the end, 
the following testimonials will show. 
/ 
Stratford-Green, 3 Mo. 1th, 1834. 
J. Chanter & Co. 
Respected Friends,—I feel it to be due to you to acknowledge, 
that after three or four weeks’ trial, 1 find your Patent Gas-Furnace 
fully to answer my expectations from it: we have ready command 
of all the heat we require for the Patent Stoves, and Conservatory, 
with considerably less fuel, and attention to the fire. The Boiler 
(Weeks’s Patent) was inadequate to the work to be done with the 
common Furnace, and I think myself fortunate in having remedied 
the deficiency so easily by the addition of your Patent Gas-Furnace. 
Call on me with your account, and it shall be discharged forthwith; 
I am, respectfully, Your Friend, 
JOHN ALLCARD. 
