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in Broad-(treet, In the reign of Charles and the Uſurpation, this manu- faure went to ruin. After the reſtoration, the Duke’ of Buckingham, at a vaſtexpence, eſtabliſhed a new glaſs-wol ¡n London, in which glaſs equal to that of Venice was quickly made. Even fince that time, this manufac- ture has been continued. It did not, however, become a Tource of vaſt profits til] the ſa-weeds-on our ſhores began to be burnt into Kelp.; Siñce that æra g'aſs-works have been rapidly multiplied at London, at Briſtol, at Liverpool, at Newcaſtle, at Dumbarton, at Leith.“ They‘are“exce‘dingly profitable to the manu aQurers. The glaſs ot all ſorts which they afford, is exported to every forcign country with which we have trading intercaurſe, The French envy, and deſpair of equalling üs, in this moſt elegant maBufac- ture. Even the Venetians do not now excel us. As in conſequence of the reſtoration of peace, tumptuous works of archite(@ure, and tlie ule“of orna- mental furniture muſt confidarably increaſe; heuce, the demand tor oùr Bri- tiſh glaſs muſt at the ſame time, become conſiderably briſker,

The cotton-manufadcture has made conſiderable progrefs at Berlin. Man- heſters of Pruſſian manufaßure, little interior to th 1uie fabric of Man- cheer, are, now, ſold in conſiderable quantity if they were really Eng- liſh goods. a floarifning manufacture of b ¿wood of Berlin, has lat 1 vhich the productions with the China of Dreſden, 2 Staffordſhire ware of England.

recexiſts in Switzerland, a manufa@ure of ſugar of milk: from whey. Is it impoſſible that’ thís manufaQure ſhould be proûtably imitated in nd?

‘here are the beſt and molt elegantly

finiſhed’piſtols now made? By a family who havé béen, for mañúy generations, hereditarily ſmiths, in are, mote Higtitand ſituation in Stirlingſhire in Scotland?‘The workmanſhip of the piſtols which they prodirce, 1» that of the Tndian canoes finiſhed with the labour even of years. It 1s moſt ifi The piſtols are bought by Gentlemen who know haw to value exquiſite workmanhip in theſe things, at any price.

Thé beſt manúfaQufter of agricultural implements wlio has ever’ yet tried the taſk‘in Great Britain, was a Mr. SMALL, of Berwickſhire, who was dire&ed al patroniſed by the late Lord Kaimes, in making a plough of peculiar coliſtruétion which has ſince obtained general preference. The manufä&ure which he eſtabliſhed, fill ſubſiſts.“ Thé ploughs and other im- pleménts which if furniſhes, âre, in all reſpe&ts, for the purpoſes of huſbandry, the beſt in Britain.‘

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N R. Brera, in Ttaly,‘hâs récèntly aſcertained by a variety of experi- - ments, that Medical‘ remedies incapable of bemg taken in by the ſtomach, may be, with great a age, applied by. friétion over the ſkin, To as to afffe the whole vital ſy ſtem'’tn thé manner delired.

Ar. Loitz, of St: Petèrfbüfgh, Tomé time fince, made many. experiments to reduce honey to the(tate of ſugar, by treating it‘with powdered charcoal. Hecould' not tully éffe& his purpoſe. Vet, he fucceeded ſo far as,to form a ſyrup of honey which night be uſed ju(t a- in 1m King

bly and uſefully as honey ither'tea or punch. That, however, in which Lowitz failed, has been recently accompliſhed’ by Mr. Cavezzau, a chemiſt of Lodi in Italy. He took a‘céitain quantity of the pureſt and whiteſt honey which he

could procure!* This he ſet to boil’in mixtu h pulvériſed egg-ſhells. As:h- boiling continued, he cfrefülly ſkimmed the mixture. In the ſkim- mine 8, there was ſome appearance ot a pecul) d which he coufd not then analytically examine, When this(cum ceaſed to appear on the ſurface; he

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