1821.] New Paten Is and Me, 
lament has been put to press, in the 
large octavo size, in double columns, 
which will very considerably lessen the 
expence, the character being similar to 
the Bengalee, both in form and size. 
8. In the Gujuratee language, tile 
New Testament is now happily brought 
through the press, 13 years after retain¬ 
ing the first pundit in this language. 
It makes between 8 and 900 pages, and 
is printed in the Dev a Naguree charac¬ 
ter. This translation the brethren in¬ 
tend to resign to their brethren from 
the London Missionary Society, who 
.are now studying the language, that 
they may give their attention more 
fully to those in which no others are 
engaged. 
9. Tn the Bikaneer language, also, 
the New Testament is. now finished at 
press. It contains 800 page-, and is 
printed in the Naguree character. This 
version was begun nearly seven years 
ago- 
10. To these we may add the New 
Testament in the Kashmecr language, 
which version has been in band nearly 
eight years, and will be finished at press 
in about a month. It is printed in a 
neat type of its own, as mentioned in a 
former memoir. In these ten languages 
the New Testament may be considered 
as being published. 
Besides these fifteen, in which the 
New Testament is completed, there are 
six other languages in which it is 
brought more than half through the 
press. These are the Kurnata , the Ne¬ 
pal, the Harutee , the Mar war, the 
Bliughulkund, and the Oojein, versions. 
About ten months more, they have 
reason to hope, will bring these through 
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the pres--; and thus in twenty-one of 
the languages of India, and these by far 
the most extensive and important, the 
New Testament will be published. It 
is the intention of the brethren to re¬ 
linquish the first of these, the Kurnata, 
to the Madras Bible Society, on the New' 
Testament being completed, that they 
may be better able to attend to tile re¬ 
maining languages,in which no version 
is begun by any one besides. 
The remaining versions now in hand 
are the following ten, which are all in 
the press. 
The J/imboo, Kanouj, and Khassee , 
printed as far as John ; the Kho shut, 
Bhutuneer , Dogura , and Magudha , to 
Mark ; and the Kumaoon , Gudwal , and 
Munipoora, to Matthew. 
In these ten versions, therefore, a 
sufficient progress is made to render 
the completion of them in no way dif¬ 
ficult. 
In comparing this memoir with the 
last, it w ill be seen that in several of 
the languages mentioned therein the 
translation has been discontinued. To 
tills the brethren have been constrained, 
by the low state of the translation fund, 
arising principally from the heavy ex¬ 
pellees occasioned by new editions of 
the Sungskrit, the Bengalee, the Iliudee 
and the Orissa Scriptures, now in the 
press. In discontinuing these, how¬ 
ever, they have been guided by a due 
consideration of the importance and 
distinctness of the different languages 
o o 
in which they are engaged, as w r ell as 
the ease with which pundits could be 
procured, should the public enable 
them to resume them again. 
NEW PATENTS AND MECHANICAL INVENTIONS. 
To George Lillet, of Br'tgg , for 
certain Improvements in the Construc¬ 
tion of Engines or Machinery (to be 
wrought by Steam or other elastic 
Fluids,) applicable to the Driving of 
Mills and other useful Purposes. 
It. LILLEY compresses atmos¬ 
pheric air or other elastic-fluids, 
by means of mechanical force, in a ves¬ 
sel or in vessels of a low or moderate 
temperature, and afterwards let the 
same pass into a tube or into tubes, ves¬ 
sel or vessels of a much higher tempe¬ 
rature, and after acting on a piston or 
pistons, permit it to escape into the at¬ 
mosphere, by which means the expence 
of fuel will not only be very much 
lessened, but he is enabled to construct 
engines which will take up much less 
room than steam-engines in their usual 
form, be considerably lighter also, and 
wdiieli may be worked in some situa¬ 
tions where the common steam-engine 
cannot for want of a necessary supply 
of water. And when engines are con¬ 
structed, with some parts of his said 
improvements, and wrought by steam, 
the pow T er will be delivered more uni¬ 
formly, w hich admits of the fly-wlieel 
being made lighter than w T ith the usual 
way 
