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In 1832, the united churches were separated into two distinct parishes, each under the same rector and assistant minister. In the same year the Rev. Dr. Abercrombie resigned his connexion with Christ church, as assistant minister, and in the spring of 1833 extended the resign- ation to St. Peter's, having spent nearly forty years in the service of these churches, long admired for his un- rivalled excellence as a reader of our admirable liturgy, for his ability as a writer, and his eloquence as a preach- er; and exhibiting in his long continued, active, and steady discharge of ministerial duty, an unbroken at- tachment to the cause of Christ and of his church. St. Peter's church being thus vacant as to a permanent as- sistant minister, the author of the preceding discourses, and of this hasty sketch, having in the same year, 1833, been unanimously invited to resume his connexion with this congregation, became the assistant minister of St. Peter's church, to succeed to the rectorship when it shall become vacant. May he ever emulate the piety, zeal, prudence, and devotedness of those who have pre- ceded him in this important charge.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. From the Journals of the Convention.
List of the Clergy of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. JUNE, 1833.
The Right Rev. William White, D. D. Senior Bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal church, presiding in the house of bishops, bishop of the diocese, and rec- tor of Christ church, St. Peter's, and St. James's, Phila- delphia.
The Right Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, D. D. assis- tant bishop of the diocese of Pennsylvania, Philadel- phia.
The Rev. James Abercrombie, D. D. residing in Phil- adelphia.
The Rev. Charles H. Alden, residing in Philadelphia. The Rev. Thomas G. Allen, residing in Philadelphia.
The Rev. Robert Ayres, residing in Franklin, Venan- go county.
The Rev. Frederick W. Beasley, missionary and rec tor of Trinity church, Easton, Northumberland county. The Rev. Gregory T. Bedell, D. D. rector of St. Andrew's church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Samuel Bowman, rector of St. James's church, Lancaster, Lancaster county.
The Rev. George Boyd, rector of St John's church, N. L. Philadelphia.
The Rev. Samuel C. Brinkle, rector of Grace church, Penn township, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Samson K. Brunot, deacon, Allegheny, Allegheny county.
The Rev. William Bryant, residing in Philadelphia, teaching a school, and officiating as domestic missiona- ry in the service of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania.
The Rev. Edward Y. Buchanan, deacon, minister of Christ church, Meadville, Crawford county.
The Rev. Levi Bull, rector of St. Mary's church, East Nantmeal, Chester county, Bangor church, Church- town, Lancaster county, and St. Thomas's church, Morgantown, Berks county.
The Rev. John B. Clemson, rector of St. Paul's church, Chester, St. Martin's, Marcus Hook, and St. John's church, Concord, Delaware county.
The Rev. Jehu C. Clay, rector of the Swedish churches, near Philadelphia.
The Rev. Corry Chambers, minister of St. Mark's church, Lewistown, Mifflin county.
The Rev. Christian F. Cruse, residing in Philadel- phia.
The Rev. John Davis, deacon.
The Rev. Robert Davis, residing in Philadelphia.
The Rev. William H. De Lancy, D. D. Provost of the University of Pennsylvania and assistant minister of St. Peter's church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. James De Pui, rector of St. Luke's church, Pottsville, Schuylkill county.
The Rev. Jacob M. Douglass, officiating in St. Tho- mas's (African) church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Charles M. Dupuy, residing in Philadel- phia.
The Rev. Lyman N. Freeman, rector of Christ church, Brownsville, and missionary at Connellsville and Mana- len, Fayette county, and at Pike Run, Washington county, in the service of the Society for the Advance- ment of Christianity in Pennsylvania.
The Rev. Bennet Glover, missionary at Erie and Waterford, Erie county, in the service of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania.
The Rev. George E. Hare, rector of St. John's church, Carlisle, Cumberland county.
The Rev. Raymond A. Henderson, assistant minister of the Swedish churches, and missionary in the vicinity of Philadelphia.
The Rev. William Hilton, missionary at Butler and Harrisville, Butler county, at Kittanning, Armstrong county, and at Venango Furnace, Venango county, in the service of the Society for the Advancement of Chris - tianity in Philadelphia.
The Rev. Benjamin Hutchins, residing in Philadel- phia.
The Rev. Cyrus H. Jacobs, rector of St. Paul's church, West Whiteland, Chester county.
The Rev. Jolin W. James, assistant minister of Christ church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Joseph Jaquett, residing in Philadelphia.
The Rev. George Kirke, rector of St. John's church, New London Cross Roads, Chester county, and mis- sionary in Chester county, in the service of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania.
The Rev. William B. Lacey, D. D. Pittsburg.
The Rev. Samuel Marks, rector of St. Mark's church, New Milford, and missionary at Montrose, Springville, and other places in Susquehanna county, in the service of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania.
The Rev. John H. Marsden, professor in Pennsylva- nia College, Gettysburg, and minister of Christ church, Adams county.
The Rev. James May, rector of St. Stephen's church, Wilkesbarre, Luzerne county.
The Rev. Samuel A. M'Coskry, deacon, minister of Christ church, Reading, Berks county.
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The Rev. William Cooper Mead, D. D. rector of Trinity church, Southwark, Philadelphia.
The Rev. George Mintzer, rector of St. Gabriel's church, Morlattin, (Douglasville, ) Berks county, and missionary in Berks county, in the service of the So- ciety for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsyl- vania.
The Rev. James Montgomery, D. D. rector of St. Stephen's church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Richard Channing Moore, jr. assistant min- ister of St. Andrew's church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Richard U. Morgan, rector of St. John's church, Pequea, and Christ church, Leacock, Lancas- ter county.
The Rev. Henry J. Morton, assistant minister of St. James's church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Robert Piggot, rector of All Soul's church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Francis Reno, residing at Beaver, Beaver county.
The Rev. John Reynolds, rector of St. James's church, Perkiomen, and St. John's church, Norristown, Montgomery county.
The Rev. Greenbury W. Ridgely, Philadelphia.
The Rev. John Rodney, jr. rector of St. Luke's church, Germantown, Philadelphia county.
The Rev. Samuel W. Selden, deacon, missionary at Georgetown and St. Paul's churches, Beaver county.
The Rev. George Sheets, rector of Trinity church, Oxford, and All Saints' church, Lower Dublin, Phila- delphia county.
The Rev. George A Smith, residing in Philadelphia. The Rev. Nathan Stem, rector of St. Stephen's church, Harrisburg, Dauphin county.
The Rev. John Taylor, residing in Pittsburg, Alleghe- ny county.
The Rev John V. E. Thorn, Carlisle.
The Rev. James H. Tyng, missionary at Honesdale, Wayne county.
The Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, D.D. rector of St.Paul's church, Philadelphia.
The Rev. George Upford, D. D. rector of Trinity church, Pittsburg.
The Rev. Peter Van Pelt, secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Bird Wilson, D. D. professor of systematic divinity in the General Theological Seminary.
The Rev. Simon Wilmer, rector of St. David's (Rad- nor) church, Newtown, Delaware county, and St. Pe- ter's church, Great Valley, Chester county.
The Rev. James Wiltbank, residing in Philadel- phis.
Total, 64.
List of the Congregations in the Diocese of Pennsyl- vania. ADAMS COUNTY.
Huntingdon township-Christ church.
ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
Kittanning-St. Paul's church.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
City of Pittsburg-Trinity church.
Allegheny-Christ church.
BEAVER COUNTY.
Georgetown-Georgetown church.
BERKS COUNTY.
Amity township (Morlattin)-St. Gabriel's church. Reading-Christ church.
Morgantown-St. Thomas's church.
BRADFORD COUNTY.
Pike-St. Matthew's church.
BUCKS COUNTY.
Bristol-St. James the Greater's church
BUTLER COUNTY.
Butler-St. Peter's church.
CENTRE COUNTY.
Phillipsburg-Trinity church.
CHESTER COUNTY.
New London township-St. John's church.
East Nantmeal township-St. Mary's church.
Great Valley-St. Peter's church.
Pequea township-St. John's church.
West Whiteland township-St. Paul's church,
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Sugarloaf township-St. Gabriel's church. Bloomsburgh-St. Paul's church. Madison, (Jerseytown)-Christ church,
.
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
Meadville-Christ church.
Rockville-Trinity church.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Carlisle-St. John's church. DAUPHIN COUNTY.
Harrisburg-St. Stephen's church.
DELAWARE COUNTY.
Chester-St. Paul's church.
Lower Chichester township, Marcus Hook-St. Mar- tin's church.
Concord township-St. John's church.
Newtown township-Radnor-St. David's church.
ERIE COUNTY.
Erie-St. Paul's church.
Waterford-St. Peter's church.
FAYETTE COUNTI.
Brownsville-Christ church.
Manalen-Grace church.
Connellsville-Trinity church.
HUNTINGDON COUNTI.
Huntingdon-St. John's church.
INDIANA COUNTY.
Blairsville-St. Peter's church. LANCASTER COUNTY.
City of Lancaster-St. James's church.
Leacock township-Christ church.
Caernarvon township, Churchtown-Bangor church. Marietta-Zion church.
LUZERNE COUNTY.
Wilkesbarre-St. Stephen's church.
LYCOMING COUNTY.
Muncy-St. James's church. MIFFLIN COUNTY.
Lewistown-St. Mark's church.
Thompsontown-St. Stephen's church. MERCER COUNTY.
Mercer-St. John's church. MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Whitemarsh township-St. Thomas's church.
Perkiomen township-St. James's church.
Norristown-St. John's church.
Pottstown-Christ church.
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY.
Easton-Trinity church.
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Milton-Christ church.
Sunbury-St. Matthew's church.
PHILADELPRIA COUNTY.
The city of Philadelphia-Christ church, St. Peter's church, St. James's church, St. Paul's church, St. Ste- phen's church, St. Andrew's church, All Soul's church, Northern Liberties-St. John's church.
Southwark-Trinity church. Francisville-St. Matthew's church.
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Lower Dublin township-All Saints' church.
Oxford township-Trinity church.
Germantown-St. Luke's church. Blockley township, Mantua-St. Mark's church. Penn township-Grace church. Hamiltonville-St. Mary's church. Manayunk-St. David's church.
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY.
Pottsville-St. Luke's church.
SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
Springville-St. Jude's church.
New Milford-St. Mark's church.
Montrose-St. Paul's church.
VENANGO COUNTY.
Franklin-St. John's church.
Venango Furnace-St. James's churchi.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Pike-run township-St. Peter's church.
WESTMORELAND COUNTY.
Greensburg-Christ church. YORK COUNTY.
York-St. John the Baptist's church.
There is also in Philadelphia, St. Thomas (African) church, not in union with the Convention. Total, 78.
List of Candidates for Orders in the Diocese of Penn- sylvania, June, 1833.
John Campbell-since July 17, 1825. Darius Williams, jr .- since March 6, 1826.
David Dick -- since January 15, 1828. Charles Shaler -- since September 19, 1828. Augustin P. Prevost-since March, 1830. Samuel T. Lord-since May 21, 1830. Henry S. Nightingale -- since September 22, 1830. William Adderly-since February 18, 1831. Thomas Crumpton -- since February 18, 1831. Henry B. Page-since February 18, 1831. George C. Drake-since January 5, 1832. John B. Foster-since April 3, 1832. Henry F. M. Whitesides-since April 3, 1832. William Hommann-since July 27, 1832. Asa S. Colton-since February 4, 1833. John Linn M'Kim-since May 14, 1833. Total 16.
Abstract of Parochial Reports.
Reports have been received from thirty nine clergy. men representing sixty parishes, -- which although more full than heretofore, are yet imperfect; and which it is hoped will be hereafter rendered perfect by a strict ad- herence to the Form of Parochial Report set forth by the Convention of 1832.
Aggregate of the Reports.
Baptisms, adults, 157, Infants 813, Total 970 .- 31 Congregations contain 2,322 families, 6,048 adults 5,212 children. - Communicants added, 508, died and remov- ed 156; present number 3,373 .- Public services, on Sundays 2,996, other days 1,393, total, 4,389 .- Con- firmed 465 .- Marriages, 264 -Burials, 450 .- Chil- dren catechized, 640, times 309 .- Bible classes, 23, members, 840 .- Sunday schools, 86, teachers 667, pu- pils 5,500. - Collections, in 32 par shes, Episcopal fund, $518,903 .- Society for the Advancement of Chris- tianity, $1233 803 .- Missionary and other purposes $16,139 85.
Church Edifices consecrated, during the year, 7 .- Being built, 7.
New churches admitted into union with the conven- tion, 3.
PUBLIC MEETING.
In pursuance of a request, in the several newspapers of the city of Pittsburgh, the citizens of Allegheny county assembled at the court house, on the afternoon
of the 26th instant, for the purpose of interchanging sentiments in relation to the commencement of the wes- tern division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; and, also, in reference to the proposed Convention, to be held at Greensborough, in the county of Greene.
The Hon. Samuel Pettigrew, Mayor of the city, pre- sided. 'The meeting being organized-on motion of Robert Burke, Esq., it was
Resolved, That a committee, consisting of three per- sons, be appointed by the Chair to prepare resolutions, expressive of the opinions of the meeting, on the sub- ject under deliberation.
Robert Burke, Richard Biddle, and N. B. Craig, Esqs. being constituted said committee retired, and after a few minutes, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to prepare a memorial,* to be presented to both Houses of Con- gress, at their next session, in favor of an appropria- tion of money, for the commencement of the western division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Resolved, 'That the same persons be a Committee to procure signatures to the memorial, when prepared, and to forward the same to the Hon. Wm. Wilkins and the Hon. Harmar Denny, with the request that they will present the same to the Houses to which they respectively belong; and that they will use their utmost exertions to procure the passage of a law, in conformity with the application of the memorialists.
Resolved, That ten delegates be appointed to repre- sent this city and county in a Convention, to be held at Greensborough, on the 23d of September next, on the subject of the improvement of the Monongahela river; and that said delegates be instructed to unite, heartily, in any measure that may be devised for the purpose of effecting an object of such obvious utility.
At the instance of the meeting, the Chair assigned the duty contemplated by the first and second of the foregoing resolutions to Richard Biddle, Walter For- ward, Esqs., and the Rev. Charles Avcry-and by the third resolution, to Robert Burke, H. M. Watts, Wm. Eichbaum, Chas. Avery, John M. Snowden, Sen., W. W. Fetterman, Robert Christy, Neville B. Craig, John D. Davis, and Dr. A. N .M'Dowell.
A motion of W. W. Irwin, Esq., that the delegates appointed to the Convention, at Greensborough, be au- thorized to fill any vacancies occurring in their own body, was then adopted.
It was also agreed that the editors of the newspapers in this city be requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting.
SAMUEL PETTIGREW, Chairman.
H. M. WATTS, Secretary.
Pittsburgh Gazette.
Extracts from Letters from one of the Editors of the Chronicle, dated DUNNSTOWN, August 26, 1833.
I arrived at Williamsport last night, at a time of great excitement, and proceeded to this place, the scene of action, this morning. On Friday last, one of the la- bourers on the canal went into the orchard of Mrs. Hunt, near the Great Island Dam, and was in the act of knocking down apples, when a young man, the son of Mrs. Hunt discharged a gun loaded with shot at the laborer, who is supposed to have been hit by some of the grains, but he fled, and has not since been heard of. The boatmen employed in collecting stone to fill in the structure of the dam, it is said, taunted the Irish labourers on the canal with the mishap to their country ! man in his depredations upon Hunt's orchard, which produced irritation, and as a most unavoidable conse- quence among such an excitable people, an attack was made the same evening by the canal laborers upon the boatmen. There were some black eyes and flesh wounds on this occasion, and most unfortunately one
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of the canal men received a discharge of large shot, from a gun, in his left arm and breast, which the physi- cians think puts his life in great peril. His case is con- sidered very dangerous this evening by them, as Dr. B. himselt informs me.
The report of these doings spread along the line with rapidity, and the gentlemen concerned in superintend- ing the work did all they could to avert the mischief that was evidently brewing. A report was circulated on Saturday morning, that the man who had been shot the preceding evening was dead. A number of the labourers employed below Dunnstown turned over their wheelsbarrows in the afternoon, and proceeded up towards the Dam. They made an attack upon Major Colt's shantee, knocked him down, and beat him, which would have been to death, but for the inter- ference of an Irishman who received the blows directed against the Major. The shantee they tore down. Other persons, entirely unconnected with the previous dis- putes were also attacked and injured, and the riot be- came so serious that word was sent to the Sheriff-and the military of the neighborhood was called. On Sun- day, the disturbance still continued, and the boatmen make an attack with axes upon the shantees of the Irish immediately below the Dam, and rased ten or a dozen of them-belonging to labourers who had taken no part in the riot. This transpired just as Capt. S. Hunter Wilson's Nittany company of horse arrived on the opposite shore, and was over before he could reach the scene of action. Some companies of military from the neighborhood assembled the same day, and quiet was restored. A number of Irish laborers were arrest- ed, and after a laborious investigation before 'Squire Dunn to day, 16 Irish laborers were sent to Williams- port under an escort of the military, there to be impri- soned till they get their trials, which will be at the Court next week, and several others were bound over on bail to appear at the same time for the same purpose.
The boatmen concerned in the outrage of destroying the shantees are lurking in the hills, out of the way of the officers of justice, else, I understand, they would be arrested, and if but half of what is stated respecting them to be true, they ought to be punished with as much severity as the Irish. They are said to be mostly Germans from Mahantango.
The Irishman shot and so dangerously wounded is a Cork man, and every one committed to jail at Williams- port is from Cork also.
I have been more particular in this account than is my custom; for this reason, that on my arrival at Williams- port, but 26 miles from the place of disturbance, the story was that 500 Irish had been turning every thing upside down, that about 250 militia and volunteers had reached the ground, that many had been shot in the affrays of Saturday and Sunday, and there was no tell- ing what might be the issue. When I got to Dunns- town, the story was that three were dead of gunshot wounds: one had been found on the opposite shore and another in the hills. These exaggerations, I concluded, would be further exaggerated by the time they would reach Harrisburg, and hence I loitered through the day about Dunnstown and the Dam, making inquiries at the best sources, the result of which is here set down.
The Big Dam, as it is called, across the West Branch of the Susquehanna, about which so much has been said, is no such a mighty affair when looked at. The point in the dam at which the water enters the canal, and the sluice outside the same, are precisely situated like the same things at Duncan's Island dam. 'The sluice, however, is much longer than that at Duncan's Island, being 1200 feet. A short distance below the lower end of the sluice, there is to be an out-let Lock, for the passage of arks into the river. The dam is to be 11 feet high, constructed thus-a sheeting of pine spans, 50 feet long, and hewed flat on the upper and lower sides, then cross pieces of the same materials,
upon this spans of 70 feet-then cross pieces-and upon these again spans of 54 feet. The structure to be fill- ed in with stone, and faced on the upper side of the dam with large white oak logs hewed flat, and the low- er side, or shoot, covered with five inch white oak plank. I have said this Big Dum is no mighty affair, because the West Branch of the Susquehanna where it is huilt, is not larger than the Bald Eagle creek that joins it a mile or two below. The principal streams that form the West Branch and give it an imposing ap- pearance at Northumberland are all below this Dam, namely, Bald Eagle, Pine, Lycoming, Loyalsock and Muncy. The work on the dam is progressing so rapid- ly under the energetic direction of the Contractors, Abbot Green, and others, that there is not the least doubt of its completion this fall. The timber and stone are as convenient as one could desire.
I walked along the line of canal connecting the Bald Eagle with the Susquehanna at the Big Dam. It is plain excavation the whole distance, being a level bot- tom, mostly a stiff clay soil, with rock or stone. It is all staked off, and the trees removed; and on some sections laborers are engaged. There will be no difficulty in finishing it by the time the West Branch Canal is com- pleted. The connexion is 3} miles in extent.
HUNTINGDON FURNACE, Aug. 30, 1833.
In travelling from Mill Hall to Bellefonte on the 27th, I observed that the buckwheat had been killed by the frost, and yesterday, between Bellefonte and this, the leaves of the young oaks exhibited marks of having been killed by the same element. This morning there is a heavy frost here, and the garden vines are all adroop. This is only 110 miles west of Harrisburg. But what is more singular, there was frost here in July, while we were melting at Harrisburg.
THE COAL TRADE.
Pennsylvania has been appropriately designated the "Key Stone State." This was at a time when her im- mense mineral and other resources were comparatively unknown. As these become developed, her importance is made more and more apparent. But a few years since, and the shores of the romantic Schuylkill were without commerce. It is true, that occasionally, a small vessel laden with wood, might be seen gliding slowly upon its tranquil waters. How different is the scene at present. The commerce of this river within the last two years has increased in an almost unexampled de- gree. Wharves have been built, capacious store-houses erected, and a thriving and prosperous business is here carried on. From the following account of the clear- ances of vessels laden with coal, for New York, Boston, Newport, Providence, Portland, Albany, Wilmington, Washington, Richmond, &c., some idea may be formed of the extent of this rapidly increasing trade. Our return is far from complete, embracing only the operations of four companies, and eight individuals or firms. Still to Philadelphians it must present a truly gratifying spec- tacle.
From the latter part of March to the 31st of August, there have been despatched from the Schuylkill, laden with full cargoes of coal, by the
Brigs. Schrs. Sloops. Tot.
North American Coal Co.
4
68
13
85
Little Schuylkill, R. R. and Navigation Company,
3
54
13
70
Delaware Coal Company,
14
80
5
99
Phoenix Coal Company,
4
17
2
23
Samuel B. Reeve & Co.
0
76
11
87
J. W. Downing,
7
63
10
80
J. S. Silver,
5
63
18
86
M'Cadles. Chambers, & Co.
8
32
0
40
By four houses,
2
28
13
43
-
--
47
481
85
613
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
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Between the 4th of April and the 31st of August, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company have loaded with full cargoes of coal, and despatched from the river De- laware, 1 ship, 32 brigs, 155 schooners, and 55 sloops; making a total of 243 vessels.
Thus it appears, that during a period of about five months, EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX vessels laden with coal have cleared from this city. We believe that when our report is completed, the whole number will fall but little short of one thousand .- Comm. Herald.
COMMODORE BARRON'S PUMP.
The following description of Commodore Barron's Pump is from the American Sentinel. It conveys an adequate idea of it. If, on the trial to which it is to be subjected, it shall prove, (as we are sure it will,) to an- swer the inventor's expectations, it will be a gift to the Navy and to Commerce, of incalculable value.
"The determination to which we learn the County Commissioners have come to give a public trial to the pump constructed by Commodore Barron, is in the highest degree creditable to their public spirit and in- telligence, as we are well assured that nothing but such a trial is wanting, to establish in the fullest and most sa- tisfactory manner, its great superiority over the pumps in common use. The beauty and simplicity of the prin- ciple upon which the efficiency of this pump turns, can- not fail to strike forcibly even the least intelligent ob- server; but to the man of pure and practical science, accustomed to look for the greatest results in the sim- plest combinations, it must be doubly interesting, as affording no mean instance of successful research under the same enlightened spirit which directs his own views. This pump is in the form of a parallellopiped, and the chamber, (which occupies nearly or quite half the whole length, ) is formed by three of its sides, and a corres- pondent moveable board, turning at its extremities upon two parallel joints like a parallel ruler. In this board, holes are pierced at different intervals, to which valves are attached turning outwards or to the fourth side of the pump.
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