Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-09-29

the reader may know who is responsible fol-
the sentiments, 1t contains. A work, con.
Quoted by such men, and upon such princi-
pies, can need no other Recommendation to
the biblical student. We are sure, that 4
will be an honour to our country.
MANUSCRIPT PENTATEucH. The Liver.
pool Courier mentions, that an original an.
cient manuscript of the Pentateuch is in the
Possession of a Mr.. Sans of Darlington. 1t
IS OF goat skin leather, and measures two
feet wide, and sixty nine feet long. Each
sheet of skin is divided into pages. five
inches and half in width. Il has been ex-
amlned by several Hebrew scholars and
Jews, and is considered the most ancient copy
ertant of the five books of Moses.
ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA. A popular
dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, his
tory, poitlcks, and biography, brought down
to the present time /; including a copious
collection of original articles in American
Biography on the basis of the 9TH edition
of the German Conversations Lericom. The
first volume of this long expected work, ed
tied by DR.. F. Lieber and E. Wigglesworth,
Esq, of this city, has just been issued from
the productive press Of Messrs. Carey, Lea.
q Carey, of Philadelphia. The whole work
is to be comprised in IL octave vols. of about
600 pages, closely printed. From the splen-
did specimen which we have examined, we
can have no doubt of the determination of
It's conductors, to fulfil, to the greatest ex-
tent, their pledges to the publck. The vol
ume now published is not only highly hon.
durable to the taste, ability, and industry of
its editors and publishers but furnishes a
proud sample of the accuracy and elegance,
with which the most elaborte and important
literary enterprises may now be accomplish
ed in our country. Of the manner in which
the editors have thus far completed their
task, 1T is impossible, in the course of a brief
newspaper article, to speak with adequate
Justice. Itcan only be necessary perhaps to
remark, in general terms, that the work, as
indicated by this volume, is all that it pro-
fesses to be it treats upon the modern i'm
provements in philosophy, and records all
the new facts in national economy, which
can be useful or interesting to the present
age, or worthy oftransmisson to succeeding
generations. To this end the editors appear
to have spared no pains or labour-having
huuO uutAOtOuS duultlOuS W SuCH
relating to science and the arts, as the pro-
gress of Improvement may have rendered
expedient; and furnished an extensive col
lection of original biographical notices, that
must be peculiarly valuable to the future
historians, statesmen, and scholars of this
republick.
The ably written preface of Doctor Lie
Der furnishes a perspcuous sketch of the
plan pursued by the editors. 1t states that
the German work upon which this is found
ed grew out of the wants of the age. "The
last half century, particularly the latter part
of it, has probably been more fertile in me-
morable events and important discoveries
and inventions, than any equal period in his
tory"
1t is to aid in the furtherance of such no.
BILE views that works like that under con-
sideration are pre-eminently calculated
The astonishing strides which have been ia
ken in every department of human knowl-
edge, even in our own day, indicate most
clearly the proprety and expediency OF
keeping pace with the events and the i'm
provements of. the times, by means of cata-
logues, and records, and vocabulares and
definitions, which, while they preserve all
that is valuable of the past, shall contribute
to enlighten orr contemporaries, and excite
IN posterity an emulation to mount upward,
and upward" in the grand career of science.
These Bodies of Philosophy, comprising the
combined results of former experience and
of existing ingenuity, are like granite step
ping stones on the tain-side--upon
these the foot of the adventurer may be
securely planted; while, if struggling among
the loose fragments thrown out here and
there, his foothold' must be precarious, his
progress painful, and his success doubtful.
We do not mean to assert, that, in this
Encyclopedias may be found all the informa-
ton required by men in various departments
of society-that it furnishes the theologian,
the physician, the civilian, and the artlzan
with all manner of minutie touching the
mysteries of their divers vocations but we
do mean to say that it is such work as may
be added to their Libraries, with vast profit
to themselves-such work as no man, be
his profession, or his trade, what it may,
should willingly dispense with. The edi-
tors, in the specimen now produced, have
furnished an earnest of their power to &C
complish their immense enterprise, and a
proof OF their claim upon the encourage
ment, and the gratitude even, ofthe Ameri-
can publick. Of the style in which the let
ter-press is executed, it is impossible to
speak in terms of too high praise.
Euening Bulletin
PATTERSON, NEw-JERsEY. This place is
of rapid growth, and contains vast number
of manufacturing and mechanical establish
ments. We gather the following particulars
from the Patterson Intelligencer.-Berkshire
american.
There are in the town II cotton factories
and 33,029 spindles. The cotton consumed
annually is 2, l79,600 pounds Cost of cot
ton, 1925, SOL. There is manufactured an
nually 10000 cotton duck, and 1861 ,450
yards of other cottons. The cotton yarn
not made into cloth amounts to l, 92,4O0
pounds and is sent to Newly York and Phila-
delphia. There are 467 power and hand
looms in the place.
There are four machine shops employing
l64 hands. In one of these were manufac-
tured last year l50,048 spindles, which, at
dh 4 0eL- Il L. pfct 10