TherQ are two S uspension Bridges in Fre-Dusertation by Elihu BW'ritt, the Learned burg-one remarkable for its length, the other Blacksmith , now in England. for its extreme beauty. The latter connects What imagination can contemplate that mysthe tops of the two mountains, swinging over terious agency of man's invention without be CODlP081tlon for renderln" Cloth Water-a frightful gul f , and makes one dizzy to look ing awed into reverence before Him who made proof. down into it. There are no

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... ttresses or .man so wonderfu lly and fe arfully. in endowing The fo llowing is the method invented by mason work. Shafts are sunk into the selid him with a capacity to work out such wonder-Nathaniel Hatch, Eastport, Me . , and patented rock of the mountains, down which the wires ful and fearful things ? As much as any one March 23d, for producing a glossy elastic to sustain it are dropped, on which it stretches ha .. e we familiarised our imagination with the waterproof surface on cotton cloth, suitable fo), a mere black line, nearly 100 fe et in the prospective possibility of human mind. As table-spreads, carriage tops &c. hea.vens, fr om summit to summit. It looks like sanguinely as any one have we I;lelieved in in the unbroken current of fr iendly confer ence, in the local id'lntity, which these mel sage wires saall work out for them. On, on, they are stretching the lightning train of thought; onward to the extremeat lnde, over seas and deserts that have swallowed up na vies and armies : knitting the ends of the earth together, and its inhabitants too, in the consentaneous sympathies, bringing the dis tant and half-explored continents of humanity with all their tribes and tongues, and colors and conditions, within the converse of an hour.