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ing one pound should be made of brass, copper, bell metal, or cast iron; and that all weights of one pound, or under, should be of gold, silver, brass, copper, or bell metal.

17. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the standard yard mentioned in the second resolution, and a pound avoirdupois, made according to the directions beforementioned in this Report, together with models or patterns of the measures of capacity beforementioned, ought to be deposited in the Count of the Receipt of the Exchequer, and there safely kept under the seals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and of the Chief Baron, and not to be opened but by the order of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chief Baron for the time being.

18. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that models or patterns of the said standard yard, gallon, and pound avoirdupois, and of the parts and multiples thereof, before mentioned, should be distributed in each county, city, or corporate town being a county within itself, in such manner as to be readily used as evidence, in all cases where measures and weights shall be questioned before the justices of the peace for each county or city, and for

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19. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the provisions of the acts of the 35 Geo. III. cap. 102, and the 37 Geo. III. cap. 145, should be extended, so as to empower justices of the peace to search for and destroy false measures as well as false weights, and put in execution the law with regard to weights and measures, and to inflict or mitigate such penalties as shall be thought proper, and to have such other authori ties as shall be necessary for compelling the use of weights and measures agree able to the aforesaid standards.

20. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the sheriff of each county ought to be directed to summon a jury of twelve sufficient men living within the county, to return a ver dict, on the comparison to be made before them of the proportions which the new standards bear to those formerly in use in each county respectively; and according to the verdict then returned, Tables of equalization should be made, and copies of the same should be distri buted through each county; and that all existing contracts or rents payable in corn should be calculated according to these Tables of equalization.

NEW ACTS,

PASSED IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED

KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.-55 GEO. III. (1814.) [The figure which follows the date of each Act, denotes the number of sheets of which it consists: each sheet is sold for THREE-PENCE.]

CAP. LXX. An act for the further improvement of the land revenue of the crown. June 17, 1814.-9.

The sum standing in the name of Lord High Treasurer of England is 151,6721.5s. 4d. and in the names of the Commissioners of the Treasury 36,300l. 13s. 5d. and 44,3471. 19s. 4d. All balances of rent of crown lands, monies arising from fines of leases, sales of rents and lands, enfranchisement, &c. to be paid to Commissioners, to whom the Commissioners of the Treasury are empowered to transfer the sums abovestated-Sale of the crown lands in Wales authorized, and the monies arising from them to be carried to the New Street Account

-Certain parcels of waste land, part of the forest of Dean, may be sold-Monies after sale of manorial rights, quit rents, &c. to be laid out in lands for the growth of timber.

LXXI. An act to revive and continue

until the 5th day of July, 1819, the manufacture of Maidstone Geneva. June

17.-1.

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between the United Provinces, and certain colonies now in his Majesty's posses

sion. June 17.-1.

The colonies enumerated are those which formerly belonged to the United Provinces in the West Indies.

LXXIII. An act to continue till the 5th day of July, 1815, certain additional duties of excise in Great Britain. June 17.-1.

LXXIV. An act for granting to his Majesty a sum of money to be raised by

lotteries. June 17.-7.

LXXV. An act for raising the sum of 1,716,666. 13s. 4d. Irish currency, by treasury bills, for the service of Ireland, for the year 1814. June 20.--1.

Bank of Ireland may advance the sum above-mentioned on the credit of this act.

LXXVI. An act for raising the sum of twenty-four millions, by way of annuities. June 28.-3.

Contributions of 1001, entitled to 301, is LXXII. An act for permitting a trade the 5 per cents., 231. 10s. in the 3 per cents.

1814.]

New Acts of Parliament.

and sol. in the 3 per cent. reduced. Discount to be allowed on payment of the whole subscription by Jan. 19, 1815. 5,500,000l. to be remitted to the Exchequer of Ireland.

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LXXVII. An act to amend an act of the 58d year of his present majesty, for repealing the duties payable on the importation of wine, the produce of the Cape of Good Hope and its dependencies, and charging other duties in lieu thereof. June 28.-2.

LXXVIII. An act to repeal so much of an act passed in the 9th and 10th year of the reign of K. William III. and of another act passed in the 23d year of his present Majesty, as respects the removal of wool within a certain distance of the sea. June 28.-1.

So much of the above-recited acts is repealed, as requires notice to be given, or entry made, of wool shorn or housed within 10 miles of the sea; certificate of wool, or number of fleeces shorn, housed, or removed; notice or bond to be given, or entry made or permit taken out before the removal; or as prohibits persons residing near the sea from selling and buying wool, without having entered into bond; or as subjects to forfeiture wool carried towards the sea-side unless entered; or wool first found within 10 miles of the sea, if afterwards lodged within 15 miles; or any wool, or horses, or Barriges, carrying the same between sunset and sun rise.

LXXIX An act for raising the sum of six millions, by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1814. July 1.-1.

LXXX. An act for raising the sum of 1,500,0001. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year 1814. July 1.-1.

LXXXI.' An act to continue until the 5h day of July, 1815, and to amend several acts for granting certain rates and duties, and for allowing certain drawbacks and bounties on goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into and exported from Ireland, and to make further regulations for securing the collection of the said duties. July 1-5.

LXXXII. An act to grant to his Majesty duties upon auctions in Ireland, in lieu of former dutics thereon, and to provide for the regulating and securing the collection of the said duties, and to prevent fraud, therein. July 1-4.

LXXXIII. An act for the more effectual regulation of the receipts and issues of his Majesty's treasury, and for sesuring the due application of money coming into the hands of the public acsountants in Ireland. July 1.-2.

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LXXXIV. An act for regulating the time of holding the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions in England. July 1.-1.

The Quarter Sessions in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, are to be held in future in the first week after the 11th of

October: but this act is not to affect London and Middlesex.

LXXXV. An act for raising the sum of three millions by way of annuities for the service of Ireland. July 14.-2.

LXXXVI. An act for regulating the payment of army prize money, and to provide for the payment of unclaimed and forfeited shares to Chelsea hospital. July 14-7.

LXXXVII. An act to grant duties of excise on certain sorts of glass made in Ireland, and to grant and allow certain countervailing duties and drawbacks in respect thereof. July 14.-2.

LXXXVIII. An act to amend the several acts for regulating and securing tilled in Ireland July 14.-3. the collection of the duties on spirits dis

LXXXIX. An act for the charge of the further addition to the public funded debt of Great Britain for the service of the year 1814. July 14.-1.

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Whereas on the 1st Feb. 1814, the sum estimated to be applicable in the present year to the reduction of the national debt amounted to 11,330,4521.; and whereas, by an act for raising the sum of 24 millions by way of annuities, the sum of 18,500,000l. was raised for the service of Great Britain, the charge of which will amount 1,175,6741. and whereas it is expedient to make provision for such charge, it is enacted that the sum of 3,994,000l. 3 per cent, New South Sea annuities; 253,000l. 3 per cent. South Sea annuities; 10,272,3921. 3 per cent. consols; 142,000l. 5 per cent, annuities, shall, after the 5th July, 1814, and 23,733,0991. 3 per cent. reduced annuities, standing in the names of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt shall, from the 10th of October, 1814, be respectively cancelled, the interest or dividends upon them shall cease, and the money applicable to the payment shall be a part of the

consolidated fund, for the purpose of defraying the charge occasioned by the addition made or to be made to the public funded debt of Great Britain in the present year.

XC. An act to explain and extend an act passed in the 43d year of his present majesty, intituled-An act for reme dying defects in the laws relative to the building and repairing of county bridges and other works maintained at the expense of the inhabitants of counties in England, and for extending the said acts to bridges and other works maintained

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New Publications, with Critical Remarks.

MENICINE, SURGERY, &C. Lectures on Inflammation. By John Thomson, M. D. F. R. S. E. Prof. of Sur gery to the Royal College of Surgeons, and Regius Prof. of Military Surgery in the Univ. of Edin. svo. 148.

Treatise on Porrigo, or Scald Head, and on Impetigo, the Humid or Bunning Tetter. By the late Rob. Willan, M. D. Edited by Ashby Smith, Member of the Royal Coll. of Surgeons, London. 4to. 125.

Inquiries into the Effects of Fermented Liquors. By a Water-drinker. 10s. 6d.

Pharmacopoeias of the London, Edin burgh, and Dublin Colleges, translated into English with an Appendix. AVO. AS.

Cases of Tetanus and Rabies Contagiosa, or Canine Hydrophobia. By C. H. Parry, M. D. F. R. S. 8vo. 6s.

MILITARY.

Trial of Col. Quintin, 10th Hussars, by Court Martial at Whitehall, Oct. 17, 1814, and following days. By W. B. Gurney. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

MINERALOGY.

Attempt to establish a pure scientific System of Mineralogy by the application of the Electro-chemical Theory and the Chemical Proportions. By J. Jacob Berzelius, M. D. F. R. S. Prof. of Chemistry at Stockholm. Translated from the Swedish, by John Black. 8vo. 6s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Rules of Life, with Reflections on the Manners and Dispositions of Mankind.

12mo. 8s.

Debates at the East India House in May and June, 1814, on the subject of Pensions. Svo. 4s. 6d.

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This novel is of a very superior quality, being at once highly amusing aud instructive. The story is interesting and romantic, without exceeding the boundaries of probability; the sketches of northern scenery are drawn with taste and judg. ment; the characters excite a lively concern in the mind of the reader, and the language is distinguished by elegant simplicity.

Montreithe; or, the Peer of Scotland. vols. 12mo.

The hero of this tale is altogether so contempti ble, that we suppose the portrait was intended for a caricature; but the execution is as wretched as the conception; and if any thing can be worse than the story, it is the language in which it is res lated.

Secret Avengers; or the Rock of Glotz. vols. 12mo. elen. A Romance. By Anne of Swansea.

Auother choice article from the same manufac tory; but exceeding the former in extravagance and vulgarity. To such authors one might say a the Italian cardinal did on reading the produc tions of Ariosto, "Where the devil did you pick up

all these lies, Master Ludovico?" Ariosto, however, had a vigorous genius, of which these romance. writers are atterly destitute..

PHILOLOGY.

A Hebrew, Latin, and English Dictionary, By J. S. C. F. Frey. Parts III. and IV. 8. royal 12s.

Hebrew Bible. By J. S. C. F. Frey. 2 vols. 31. 3s. royal 41. 10s

POETRY.

Specimens of the Greek and Roman Poets, in a Chronological Series; translated into English Verse, and illustrated with Biogra phical and Critical Notices. By Charles Abraham Elton. 3 vols. 8vo.

We see more to admire in the plan of this work than in the execution; for though the claim of the translator to the merit of understanding the

Observations on Objects interesting to the Highlands of Scotland, particularly to Inver-originals cannot be denied, he is far from possess

ness-shire. gvo os.

The Surveyor's Guide, being a Directory to the Appointment and Discharge of that Office. 4to. 3s.

The Gentleman's Mathematical Companion for 1815. No. XVIII. 12mo. 2s. 6d. The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton; with a Supplement of Interesting Letters by distinguished Characters. 2 vols. avo. 11. is.

The perusal of these disgusting volumes cannot but produce very painful emotions in the minds of all who retain a respect for the moral dignity of man. Had the publishers possessed the smallest sense of what is due to society, they would have consigned the papers which make up this collection to the flames. But the deed is irretrievable, and all that remains for the admuers of the hero, while they lamest over these incontrovertible tesumonies of his weakness, is to say," Alas! poor

human nature!"

NOVELS.

Records of a Noble Family. By Jane Harvey. vols. 18s.

Paired not Matched, or Matrimony in the 19th century. By Mrs. Koss. 4 vols. 11.

The Recluse of Norway. By Anna Maria Porter, 4 vols, 12mo.

ing that command of his own language which is requisite in one who undertakes the office of rea dering the beauties of ancient poesy familiar to the Euglish reader.

Ossian's Fingal; an ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books, rendered into English Verse. By George Harvey. 8vo. pp. 276. 10s.

We should be glad to know by what authority Fingal is denominated an ancient poem, or what are its pretensions to the dignitied title of an epic! On the taste of those who can relish snch sublime nonsense we scorn to make any observation; but truth compels us to say, that the present translator has evinced in his performance talents which might have been much better employed.

The Modern Dunciad; a Satire; with Notes Biographical and Critical. 12mo. pp. 106, 5s. 6d.

The writer, whose poverty of intellect is such a to drive him to the necessity of adopting for rhymes "appland and lord"-" pass and farce""drawn and morn”—is ill qualified to seat himself on the bench of criticism.

Dermid, or Erin in the Days of Boru. By John D'Alton, Esq. Barrister at Law. 400. 21. 5s.

POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Memorial of M. Carnot, addressed to Louis XVIII. Translated from the French

1814.]

.New Publications, with Critical Remarks.

MS. with a Sketch of the Author's Life. By Lewis Goldsmith. 3s. 6d.

A Funeral Sermon on the Downfall of Buonaparte's Dynisty, preached on the General Thanksgiving Day. is. 6d.

Letter to the Earl of Liverpool on the Probable Effect of a Great Reduction of Corn Prices by Importation, and on the relative Condition of the State and its Creditors.

8vo. 3s.

TOPOGRAPHY.

Statistical Account, or Parochial Survey of Ireland; drawn up from the Communications of the Clergy. By Wm. Shaw Mason, Esq. M. R. J. A., Remembrancer and Receiver of First Fruits, and Secretary of the Board of Public Records. Illustrated with Maps and Plates. Vol. I. 11. 10s.

Mr. Mason, actuated by a desire of procuring for his native country the important advantages which are to be derived from an intimate know ledge of her own resources, and which have been so ably illustrated by Sir John Sinclair in his Statistical Account of Scotland, has engaged in this undertaking, the plan of which he has borrowed from the celebrated work just mentioned. We rejoice to find that he has been eminently success ful in his enquiries. Numerous returns have been procured from the officiating ministers of parishes throughout the country, containing the facts ne cessary for elucidating its topography, agriculture, arts, population, language, education, manners, &c. and whatever else can tend to develope the characteristic peculiarities both of the soil and people, in the view of making the analysis of the present state of freland the clue to its future improve. The information thus procured from persons, whose "constant residence on the spot, and

ment:

intimate connection with the inhabitants, supply

the most minute and authentic information, and who, from their education and literary habits, can make the most judicious use of their materials, ensures to the work an extent and precision of information, that could not he expected from a survey of a more general nature, however skilfully conducted. The volume now published comprises the description of nearly sixty parishes, throughout this part of the untud kingdom; and, as materials have been already collected for several volumes, and every application has been attended to with an alacrity which evinces a lively zeal for promoting this interesting inquiry, Mr. Masou enter tains the most sanguine expectations of accomplish; ing his plan, and hopes to exhibit with all possible expedition, the statistical view of every parish in the island.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

Alpine Sketches, comprised in a Tour through Holland, Flanders, France, Savoy, Switzerland, and Germany, in 1914. 8vo, 9s. Letters from Albion to a Friend on, the Continent. Written in 1810-1813. 2 vols.

sm. 8vo. 128.

Visit to Paris in June 1814. By Henry Wansev.sen. F. A. S. 8vo. 5s.

Letters from the Right Hon. Lady Craven to Her Serene Highness the Margrave of Anspach, during her Travels through France, Germany, and Russia, in 1785 and 1786. Second Edition, including a variety of Letters Not before published. 1oy. 4to. 11. 11s. 6d. NEW MONTHLY MAG. NO. 11.

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Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China; returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena; in the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass. By James Wathen. Illustrated with 24 coloured Prints, from Drawings by the Author. 4to. pp. 246, 3:35.

Titis elegant narative does equal honour to the literary talents and delicate pencil of the ingenious author, who is a native of He efordshire, where, on the romantic banks of the Wye, he imbibed an cising his powers in his own country, the ruling. exquisite taste for picturesque beauty. After exer. passion carried him to the continent of Europe, and next to India; of which last voyage a speci men is given in the present volame; and much is it to be wished that more may follow descriptive of the delightful scenery of the East.

By

A Tour through the Island of Elba. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. Illustrated with Views drawn from Nature, by Sir Rich. Colt Hoare, Bart. and John Smith. 4to. 21. 25.

This tour was made in 1789; and the journal, though elegantly sketched, is slight, forming in the whole no more than seventeen 4to. pages; the remainder of the book being made up of eight views and a map, very well engraved, and a rapid outline of the character of Buonaparte.

A Voyage to Terra Australis ; undertaken of that vast Country, and prosecuted in the for the purpose of completing the Discovery Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the Armed Vessel Porpoise, and Cumberland Schooner. With an Account of the Shipwreck of the Porpoise, Arrival of the Cumberland at the Mauritius, and Imprisonment of the Commander during Six Years and a Half in that Island. By Matthew Flinders, Commander of the Investigator. 2 vols. 4to. with an Adas.

In 1795 Mr. Flinders, who had an ardent passion for exploring new countries, went out as midshipmen with Captain (now Admiral) Hunter, to New South Wales; and in that voyage he formed an acquaintance with Mr. George Bass, surgeon of the same ship, whose ardour for discovery was neither to be repressed by obstacles, nor deterred, by danger. These two friends formed a resolution et completing the examination of the east coast of New South Wales; and in a little boat, called Tom Thumb, they actually engaged in that enterprise, which was attended with the discovery of some inlets and harbours Mr. Bass afterwards had the merit of a certaining the straits which bear his name; and in 1797 Mr. Flinders extended his journal of which expedition was published by Co

observations still farther on the same coast; a

Jonel Collins, in his account of that settlement. Much, however, remaining to be determined with respect to the coast, and the interior of the vast continent of Terra Australis, the English govern ment very properly appointed this active and intel. ligent navigator to the command of the Investiga tor sloop, in which he sailed from Spithead. July 10, 1801; and, after exploring with great pains and

accuracy an immense tract, the ship arrived at

Capt. Flinders sailed again on his important mis Port Jackson, May 9, 1802. On the 22d of July sich, in the discharge of which he was enabled to increase the store of geographical and nautical VOL. II. 3 N

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science, by many valuable discoveries, particularly of the island of Van Diemen; but the decayed state of the ship being such as to endanger the safety of the crew, her enterprising commander found himself under the necessity of returning to Port Jackson, where he arrived June 9, 180S, The fate of this worthy man was singularly unfortu. nate; for, after being wrecked on a coral reef in the Forpoise sloop, he embarked in a schooner named the Cumberland, which, on account of her leaky condition, was obliged to put into the Isle of France, where, contrary to the rights of huma nity, and in violation of a passport from the French government, Capt. Flinders was detained as a prisoner of war, and all his charts and jour nals were seized by General De Caen. Here the author languished above six years in confinement, and when at last he obtained his release, none of his papers were delivered up; for an obvious reason, because they had been sent to France, where they were made use of to enrich the account of the voyage of discovery undertaken by order of Buonaparte. Thus the researches and observations of our countryman were stolen to gratify a paltry ambition; and by a refinement in villainy, pecu. liar, we believe, to the policy of Napoleon, Capt. Flinders was incarcerated in a remote island, that the piracy might pass undiscovered, Fortunately, however, for the interests of justice and science, duplicates of most of the journals and charts had been already sent to England, or were so preserved, as to enable our ingenious navigator to complete the history of his labours, and to leave

behind him a faithful record of his claims and services. But the two volumes now before the public were scarcely dry, when the author died of a malady contracted in his canfinement; thus proving as completely the victim of an unpriucipled tyranny as Toussaint or Wright. After saying

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so much of the personal history of Capt. Flinders, we need only observe, that this narrative of his voyage is written in a style of chaste simplicity, and with a rigid adherence to truth, The work in its exterior form, with respect to typography and the engravings, is also deserving high praise, and will rank on an equality with the volumes of the immortal Cook.

Paris in 1802 and 1814. By the Rev. Wm. Shepherd. 8vo. pp. 278.

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This volume contains an account of two visits to the French capital at very different periods; but the reasons assigned for the publication are rather whimsical. "When I lately returned," says the author, applications for a sight of my diary become so numerous, that I foresaw much trouble in superintending its circulation. In this embar rassinent I recollected to have heard of an honest quaker, in the back settlements of America, who finding himself absolutely eaten up by transient passengers, set up the sign of the Dun Cow; after which, though he did not make any profit, he enjoyed the comforts of a quiet house. Upon this hint I have committed both my journals to the press." The importunity of friends has often been offered as an apology for printing, but we lever knew an instance before, of an author having recourse to this measure for the purposes of avoiding them and their civilities.

A Letter from Paris, to George Petre, Esq. By the Rev. John Chetwode Eustace. $vo.

PP. 98.

Another picture of the French metropolis, sketched by au observer of no ordinary taste and judginent. admirable; and the remarks on national manners The description of the public buildings at Paris 15 and principles, are equally acute and liberal.

REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

The Medley Overture to the Musical Extravaganza called Harlequin Hoax, or a Pantomime Proposed; performed with unbounded applause at the Theatre Royal Lyceum. Composed, selected, and arranged, by John Parry. 25. Bland and Weller, Oxford-street.

After listening to the general effect of this overture, produced by the admirable band at the Lyceum, we were, on an examination of its construc. tion, surprised at the paucity of the materials. A few popular airs well combined, supported by solos on various instruments, (not forgetting the harnonica.) and worked up with some common-place passages, constitute the whole of its merits. being perfectly easy, it will forn an agreeable practice for the younger boarding school ladies.

Yet,

Verse Anthem, from the 90th Psalm, for Four Voices and Chorus, "Lord thou hast been our Refuge;" first sung at Margate Church in 1814. Composed by John Boys, Gent. Pallister's Library, Margate.

As this anthem was 'composed by an amateur in aid of the Charity School of the town, it would be hard to visit it with a severe criticism. It is but justice to say, that Mr. Eoys has shewn himself an attentive observer of the manner of the best cathedral composers. Though the music displays no great originality, yet the harmony is smooth and flowing, the imitations are well brought in; and it

is no small praise to say, that in many passages we arc reminded of the admirable anthems of Kent. It is to be noticed, that the alto part, being written in the treble clef, should be sung an octave lower,

A Companion to the Royal Patent Chiroplast. or Hand Director; a new invented apparatus, for facilitating the attainment of a proper execution on the Piano-forte. By the Inventor, J. B. Logier, Professor of Music, Dublin. 8s. Clementi and Co.

The first part of the apparatus is called the gamut board. This is an ob.oug board, which on our side has drawn upon it two staves of five lines each; one for the treble, and the other for the bass, which being placed over the keys of the piano-forte, each note will be over its correspond. ing key. The other side of the gamut board represents the chromatic and enharmonic scales. The second part of the apparatus is the position frame, which consists of two parallel rails, extending from one extremity of the keys to the other; to the ends of these are fixed two check-pieces, which, by means of a brass rod and extending screw, are attached to the instrument. The rails must be adjusted so as to admit the hands of the pupil passing between them nearly as far as the wrists, being so regulated as to prevent any perpendicular motion of the hands, though sufficiently wide to allow a free horizontal movement when required. The finger guides are two moveable brass plates, with five divisions, through which the thumb and fore fingers are introduced. These divisions coITE

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