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being vitrified, or imparting any color to glass; nor are any preparations of it of any primary color.

Electrical explosions being received on the surfaces of all the metals, change their color, to a considerable distance round the spot on which they are discharged, so that the whole space is divided into a number of concentric circular spaces, each exhibiting all the prismatic colors; and perhaps as vivid as they can be made in any method whatever.

Phil. Trans. vol. xii. pp. 178, 511.

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6135. [Rev. xxii. 1.] Water can exist permanently in four states, and temporarily in one only. Two of these are effected by electricity, and three without it. The first electrical state is that of cloud, which is so much charged as to become lighter than air at the surface of the carth; the second is a complete saturation of water with the electric fluid, which produces a transparent and elastic fluid light enough to float above the highest clouds. The first of the three other states is ice; the second is liquid; the third, which is quite temporary, is vapor; for, as soon as the supply of heat by which it is raised from the earth is withdrawn, it condenses, and returus again to the state of water.

CORNELIUS VARLEY. Month. Mag. vol. xxiii.
No. 156. p. 375.

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This tree is one of the most long-lived in nature several of them have been kept in gardens for two or three hundred years, and even then retained the appearance of their youthful vigor. The delicious sort, called China Oranges, was first brought from China by the Portuguese; and it is said the very tree, from whence all the European ones of that kind have been propagated, is still preserved at Lisbon.

See SMITH'S Wonders of Nature and Art, vol. i. p. 215.

6137. [Rev. xxii. 2.] Those fruits designed to supply the accidental demands of travellers, or navigators, remain on the earth at all times. These for the latter, are not only inclosed in shelis adapted to their preservation in the sea, on whose shores they grow; but they appear on the tree at all seasons and in every degree of maturity. In tropical countries on the uninhabited shores of the islands, the cocoa-tree bears at once twelve or fifteen clusters of cocoa-nuts, some of which are still in the bud; others are in flower; others are knit; others are already full of milk; and finally some are in a state of perfect maturity. Except the cocoa-tree and the banana, no others known are in fruit all the year round.

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6141.

There is, in the Maremma, some remarkable instances of the vast age to which Olives will attain: Sig. Zucchino, professor of agriculture at Florence, informed A. Young Esq., that, on examining the hills in the middle of that tract, he found in the midst of woods, and almost overrun with rubbish, Olives of so immense an age and magnitude that he conjectures them to have been planted by the antient Hetruscans, before the Romans were in possession of the country.

PINKERTON'S Coll. part xvii. p. 611.

6142. [ 9.] St John, says CUPRIAN (de Bono Patientia, sub fin.), about to render worship to an angel, is rebuked and told not to do it, but to "worship the Lord Jesus." If Cuprian has translated, it proves that, in some very early copy, the passage was thus read; and if he has only supplied a comment, his inference from the doctrine is evident: That God, therefore, whom the Apostle was commanded to worship, was by this excellent man understood to be no other than our Lord Jesus Christ. BURGH'S Enquiry respecting the Godhead, p. 338.

6139.

The Indians ascribe great medicinal viriues to the cocoa of the Maldives or sea-cocoa, known to botanists under the name of nux medica. The Asiatic physicians pretend that it is antiscorbulic; that it radically cures the venereal disease; and that it is a powerful antidote against poison.

6143. [ 15.] An opinion or hypothesis having been once adopted, every matter of fact is received through a refracting medium, which bends and models the shapes of objects to the wishes of the inventor.

DOWNING'S Hebrew Elements, p. 33.

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