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Fpom “El Colomh'nuin,” of the 6th April
lust, we extract the following official arti
cles emanating fioin the government of
Colombia, which throw additional light on
the state «f affairs in that Republic anil ;
also in Peru. \_Nal. Intelligencer. ~
The Hard renunciation of the Presidentship
of Colombia made by the Liberator.
—— j
To His Excellency the President or
the Senate. j
Excellent Sir: Tho peace of Peru, which
our arms have effected, by the most glon- .
«us victory of the new world, has terminated
the war on the American continent, loos
Colombia has no longer an enemy m her
i,wn territories, or in those ot her neighbms.
1 have therefore fulfilled my mission, con
sequently it is time to reali'/a* the promise l|
have so often made to my country, «l retir- 1
ing from pulilic life when an enemy was no
longer to be lound in America.
All the world observes ami confesses that
my continuance in Colombia is no longer
necessary, and no one is mure sensible ot
this fact than myself. I most, even add that
I deem my glory at its height, on Mini ding
my country free, consolidated,and tranquil,
ere I withdraw from its glorious shores. My
absence in Peru ha* manifested the truth ol
this fact, and I flatter myself that in luturc,
the liberty and glory of Colombia will still
further increase. The Legislative body, the
Vice President, the Army, and Nation, have
demonstrated, in the very outset ol then
career, that they are worthy ol liberty, and
fully capable of sustaining it against every
opposition. Let me honestly confess to
Your Excellency, that I wish that both Eu
rope and America should be satished ol my
abhorrence of supreme power, uiuli't what
ever aspect or name it may be conferred on
me. My feelings are wounded by the atro
cious calumnies lavished on me, at once by
the liberals of America, and the seroiles ot
Europe. Dav and night I arn disquieted by
the impressions that my enemies entertain,
of my services in favor ol liheity being
prompted by ambi : ion. In short, 1 venture
to state to Your Excellency, with unusual
frankness, which I hope will be excused, that
I think the glory of Colombia will suffer by
my continuance in her territories; inasmuch
as it will always be imagined, that she is
threatened by a tyrant; and the outrage I
thus offered to me, will, in some sort, tarnish,l
the lustre of 'her virtues, since I form a
part, although ihc least, of the Republic. ;j
1 beg Your Excellency will be pleased to I
submit to the consideration ol the Senate, i
my renunciation of the Presidency of Colom-jt
bia. Its admission will be an ample recoin- 1 ]
pence for my services in both Republics. i
Your Excellency will please to accept the. j
assurance of my distinguished consideration, j
SIMON BOLIVAR.
Limn, December 23, 1834. i
I
ANSWER. 1
.ij
To His Excellcnc}/ Ihc Liberator and Presi- I
dent of the Republic of Colombia. ij
Senate House, Bogota, ) L
Feb run ry, 11,1833. —15. $ 1 j
Excellent Sir: lu conformity with the
communication I had the honor to make to i
Your Excellency in my note of the Ist in- |
slant, I assembled the two legislative Cham- i
hers on the Bth instant, at night, in order to ,
deliberate in their wisdom on the renuncia- ]
tion made by Your Excellency of die Presi- j
dency rtf the Republic. The coinmunica ion |
of Your Excellency having been read, and I
this delicate affair proposed for discussion, a
most profound and dignified silence prevail
ed for some time. This truly expressive si
lence—a silence more eloquent tuau human
language, continued for the spice of fifteen
minutes. The females,and numerous spec
tators, who occupied the galleries of the
Senate, were immoveable, and anxiously
awaited the decision of the Legislature. At
length the question of the retirement >q
Your Excellency was put to the vote, and 1
have the pleasure of announcing its reject in
bv the seventy-three members coniposin
the Congress; namely, twenty-one Senator
and fifty-two Representatives. Then
was, that this amiable People—this Poop
that adores its Liberator; could not restrai
its transports of joy. The clapping of 114 1 ■ •
was heard for the first time in the Chamb
Your Excellency was cheered wifi the m
lively enthusiasm, and the Legislators al>
were applauded for having manifes’ed
correct a judgment in this august delibera.
tion. All was joy, all was gaiety. The
People, Sir, knew not how to express their
feelings of satisfaction, tenderness, and
pure delight. In short, they proved how
precious to them was the father of Colom
bia, the friend of the human race, in a mode
as sincere as it was energetic. Your Ex
cellency would have been deeply afflicted,
had jmu (fortunately for us) beheld this
moving scene. The cherished, the respect
ed name of Simon Bolivar, resounded
throughout Bogota, and the numerous assem
blage of both sexes, that with contested
hearts crowded streets, contributed to the
solemnity of this act of Congress. There
was not an individual who did not repose
more tranquilly for knowing that your Ex
cellency continued in the Presidency of the
Republic.
Sucli are the events of the memorable
night of the Bth of February, which I have
the satisfaction of communicating to your
Excellency.
Your Excellency will please (0 accept the
'sentiments of my distinguished considera
tion and respect.
LUIS A. BAR AULT,
President of the Senate.
! We find from the Commercial Adverti
ser of New-York, Irom which we have a-
| bridged the following statement, that a
school has been founded at Albany under
the auspices of a name almost synonymous
with that of benevolence, Stephen Van Ren
selaer—the grand object of which is to
“ cause the student to he instructed in the
application of science to the common pur-j
poses ol life, by a course of experimental |
|exercises which cannot be effected in the!
work shops or in the field. Having thus
acquired a practical knowledge of the ele
mentary basis of every calling with iL '
pcndence on all others, he will he qualified
for entering the work shop of a particular
jiirti/.an, or for the labours of a particular
|farmer, or for studying a learned profession,
which requires a general knowledge of eve
ry known pursuit.” Balt. Am.
“ To effect this important object, a to
tally new plan ol instruction is adopted.
It is that of exercising students in giving
lectures themselves by turns, with practical
illustrations on all the subjects of instruc
tion, Gen. Van. Renselaer first appoint
ed a preliminary term of fifteen weeks for
making the trial. At the end of seven
weeks the trustees met to witness the suc
cess ol the experiment, which was in the
highest degree satisfactory.—lt was found
that a large number of students might be
taught upon this plan without any of that
embarrassing interference which might by
many have been anticipated.
In this school degrees are to be conferred
on the most meritorious. In the summer
time the students are to be exercised by sec
tions under the direction of the teacher, in
the art of inoculation and engiafting trees,
transplanting frees, cutting, and layers!
prunning frees, surveying farms, calculating
heights and distances, measuring curded
wood, scantling and boards, and the solid
contents of timber, guaging casks, taking
measures, and calculating the velocity and
pressure of rivers, water raceways, aque
ducts, &c collecting and preserving plants
and minerals, and in such other laborious
exercises as shall comport with the objects
of the school.
In the winter term they will be exercised
bv sections, at the workshop in the school
building, in the use of tools, to qualify them
(nr making repairs and performing small
Jobs, when a professional artist is not at
hand. By such exercises in the work shop,
it. is not intended that students shall be
qualified for exercising any of the mechan
ical arts; but for avoiding the delay and
expense of calling a distant mechanic to
accomplish a purpose which does not require
a set «(tools appertaining to anv trade.
During (he whole winter term, students
are also employed in giving experimental
lectures on the subjects ol the instruction
received during the summer term They
give their lectures by sections, before the
professors and their assistants. At the
intervals between lectures, they resort to
the common reading room, to prepare their
notes for the next exercise, where they have
free access to an ample scientific library.)
By this course of exercises, eacli student 1
makes every subject of instruction com
pletely his own ; and by his daily lectures
to his fellow students, his superiors, and
such visitors us may be invited in, wears off
his native timidity, and becomes qualified
for giving public courses of instruction, and
for performing other public duties.”
j The expenses of the students for the
1 whole course are put down at 596. There
lis a large and extensive library, as well as
ia cabinet of mineralogical and geological
specimens provided,
1 , “ After receiving the Renselaer Decree,
jibe student is forever after to be ennsider
jed as a member of the school, and may have
access to the collections, to the reading
room, the lectures, fee, lice of expense. He
is also entitled to the patronage of the trus
'ees, and is responsible to them for his mo
al conduct. It is his duty to .write to the
> »ard at least once in three years, and enm
ninicaie all his new discoveries and im
rnvements.”
Al/ered Yorth Carolina Notes. —One
> 'liar Bills of the Stale Bank of N. Caro
-10l fire new imp'-ession, engraved bv
Inrrav, and Draper, Furman & ('n. alter-l
to Two Dollars, are in circul ition ini
irfolk. They are said to he delected by,
a single examination. '
■ TOR THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
\ ?f«. 2i.—POETRY.
. Mr. Editor,
; _ In resuming the task I have
. assigned myself, I shall foi the sake of me
, tli'>d, commence with the last of the sub
, jects which in my first communication I
Proposed to examine, viz: the effect «*f
oetry generally —by effect I mean the
. changes which it produces in our me Hal
1 operations and moral dispositions, and in
i Ufe * r ij(i B ,e w ord Poetry, Ido not intend (e*-
. cepnn cases which will be sufficiently ob
; vious) to confine myself to its limited sense
. of a metrical composition, but shall consi
; dec it—as from its derivation we are war
ranted in doing—to signify any form of
. speech or collocation of words in which an
. address is made to the imagination rather
r than the judgment (A) in this sense there
is much good poetry which is not metrical
. ly arranged, and not a little verse without
any poetry in it, it is true that verse like a
wife in law, has her existence so merged in
that of poetry, that they are generally con
, sidered as one. Yet nevertheless, certain
[persons who since the days of Dry den ami
.iPope, have been compelled nolens vo/ens to
.'inhabit the attic apartments of grub-street
i have frequently procured a separate main
■ tenance for her : tin* poems called Osstans
i (B) and the book of Job in the old testa
, ment, are good examples of poetry without
, verse, and almost every newspaper will fur
. nish instances of verse without, poetry.
;()ur inquiry then is, what is the effect of
poetry in its most comprehensive sense?
[ —I speak of the use not the abuse of it
and with this limitation, i answer unhesi
tatingly, that it exalts the imagination, pu-'
■Ti'Shiid cultivates the taste and leaves
, all our affections more happdy disposed for
• the performance of our du»ies ; he who
. “ feels his < yes filled with pleasant tears”,
ias he beholds “the sun softly sink and
. float alotig the western paradise of clouds”
—(Cain 2d Act.) must love and win snip
(heg eai and benevolent Creator.who form
jed objects so indescribably beautiful, and
■|endowed him with the faculty of perceiv
ing their beauty—tha' love of God winch is
| the essence of piety, and deemed by ma
(ny the basis of every correct system of
, Ethics, must be produced to some extern, 1
by a perception of the beauty, order and
sublimity of Ids creation :
“ Thus at their ihady lodg-‘ arriv’d, both ttood,
Both turn’d, and under open sky dor’d
The God that made both sky, air ear b and heaven.
Which they beheld, the mo n's r pleadeiu globe.
Am! starry pole; Thou also mad’sl the night,
Maker omnipotent! and thou the day
Which we, in our appointed work employ’d
Have finish'd -
This said unanimous, and other rites
Observing none, but adoraiioi pure
Which God likes best, into their inmost bovver
Handed they went ,~~Paniditt lust, ilh hook , 720, 738 fines.
What condensed sublimity of thought
and expression characterizes (he rova! He
brew I'oet’s'declaration of the same senti
ment in the 19 h Psalm ?
Ist. The heavens declare the glorv of
God, and the firmament slieweth his handy
work.
2d. Day unto day uttereth speech, and
night unto night slieweth knowledge.
3ii. There is no speech nor languja'-e
where their voice is not heard.
How emphatically is the operationtha |
sentiment in our feelings, described By
ron, in the 3d Canto of Child HaroliP*
St. 89tli ' V I
Krorn lh« high host
Os stars, to the lull’d bike and mountaiu coast,
AH is concentered in a life intense
Where not, nor air, nor leaf is lost.
But hath a part of being, and a sense
Os that, which is of all Creator and defence.
90th.
Then stir* the feeling infinite, so felt I
In solitude where we are least alone ; |
A truth, which through our being then doth melt
And purities from self; - .....
1
91st. 1
Not vainly did the early Persian make I
fils altar the high places and the peak |
Os earth—oVrgacing mountains, and thus take r
A til and unrivall’d temple, there to seek
The spirit in whose honor shrines are weak
Uprear’d of human hands. Come and compare
Columns and idol-dwellings Gotlie or Greek, (
W ith nature’s realms ot worship, earth and air \
Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy pray’r.” |
■ Even Southey whom his greater rival, ,
last quoted, has almost lashed out of the i
ranks of Poetry, on this subject felt the ,
true inspiration ,
“ Go thou and sack the house of prnyar
1 to the woodlands wend, and there 4
In lovely nature see the God of Lore.
The swelling organ's peai i
Wakes not my soul to zeal |
Like the wild music of the wind*swep! grove. [Od# writ- J
ten Sunday Morning ]
I might multiply quotations until I had
[included the whole list of Poets, for there !
never was one entitled to that appellation,
who did not at some time feel and express
the same sentiment, for
" It is a tone
The soul and source of music, which makes known
Eternal harmony.” (
] If such is the effect of the Poetry of ex- i
| ternal objects when seen (C) is there not, i
when they are brought hack on us again bv i
the glowing descriptions of the poet? some i
analogous operation on our feelings, or ra-i
ther is not the effect increased ? (
That soul which, though latent, seems i
mixed up with every grand and beautiful I
object, speaks audibly4n the voice of the ■,
, Poet, and to every other charm is added
that which arises from (be mysterious ener
gy ot mind, that wondeilul power which'
(contains in itself the embryon of all crea
|tnm, tor as Akenside enthusiastically ex
claims :
Mind, miod alone, (bear witness, etrth and Heave*),] j
The living fountain! in itself contains
Os beauteous and sublime. Pleasures of imag. Ist Book,
and
The beings of the mind are not of clay,
Ess < ntially immortal, they create,
And multiply in us h brighter ray
i And more beloved existence : 4th Ca nto Child Harold.
V\ hat Christian is there who does not
■ feel Ids piety exalted, and his love for, anti
[ confidence in, the goodness of God incieas
f ed,by the poetical passages in the old and
? new testament ? and whose soul docs not
I melt with tenderness, when he reads the
1 touching declaration of Jesus ?
“Ob Jerusalem, Jerusalem thou who
- kilh st the prophets, and stonest them who
2 are sent unto thee, how often would 1 have
- gathered thy children, even as a hen gather
- eth her chickens under her wings, and ye
f would not! Behold ! your house is left
i unto you desolate,” And what are the j
r Parables and Metaphors which are to be
i found on almost every page of the Evan
gelists, hut poetry, and that of the bright
t est order ? Surely He best knew in what
i language to address himself to the hearts
i of the miserable and depraved beings whom
- he came to teach.
I I I shad dose this branch of my subject,
1 by hazarding an opinion which will doubt
i less seem a bold one, and is so far as I
[know, an original one, it is that the faculty
. which is principally employed in produc
ing poetry, viz : the imagination, is the on
ly one of those which compose mind, that is
peculiar to man. Reason or judgment is
[denied to brute animals, and yet it would ,
,[be extremely difficult I apprehend, to
fdiaw the line of discrimination clearly, he
-1 tween the reason or judgment shewn by the
■ dog, elephant, monkey and others on many
occasions, and that which seems to govern a ,
■ man in exactly the same situation, by which 1
, parallelism of situation, I mean one w! ose (
(acuities have never been cultivated by that [
, collision of intellect which is ; lie consequence
,«f our ability to converse with each other
such a one for example as the wild man who [
was found in the forests of Poland during i
the last century, who had never seen or (
conversed with one of his own species ; such e
a man and a dog would equaly retreat from
a fire, when ou approach!' g it too near for '
the fi'st time, they found it was painful, 1
and would equally return to it in the cold [
' weather, when they found at a certain dis- J
Itance that it was comfortable and gave plea
sure ; hut the man would also sometimes °
pause to look on a beautiful verdant plain p
and listen to the murmur of the rivulet that „
watered it, or to the songs of the birds who j'
flutte. ed among the foliage of its trees, he a
would no doubt admire and pluck a richly
colored vvik flower, and inhale its fragrance
with delight; all these objects the dog
would pass unheeded, for in what instance '
did a brute animal ever evmee a perception of [
the beauty or grandeur of external objects,
or give well marked indications of deriving *
pleasure from the fragrance of a flower, the
melody ol music (■») the beauty of a valley, j
tree or river, or the sublimity of a stupen
dous mountain. If tuns lam right the ini- 1
.Agination is the only distinguishing w pecu
liar faculty of the soul and | go further and
assert that so far as regards our own abilitv
to wnght or wrong, and so far as ouV (
~vv. . faculties are the agents in the produc
tion of goad and evil, that is the final cause, |
Vir the c‘Use sine qua non of our virtues, be- f
[cause it is that one of the constituents of (
,i,in,tor soul (I use these words as synoni
l„./Us, and whether right or wrong, it I am S
understood it is sufficient) which governs
our feelings and which disposes us to act
promptly, without waiting to make cold and
selfish calculations on (he advantages or dis- •"
advantages likely to result from it. (E.) 11
I am about to state a case which may be I'
considered perhaps as the Ultima Thule of:
human speculations or the influence ofsel
fishness : suppose a traveller in the great p
desert of Arabia—he may be a Nubian,
an Arab or an European, it matters not-—if
he is a human being, he is the last of his
Caravan, even his Camel has at length fal- .
jen and fainted from thirst and inanition. v
the fiery simoom is behind him, already
scorching him with its hot breath, the bound- v
less ocean of Arid sand is before him, and .
on his right and left are those awful pillars?,
with their heads in the clouds, and their L
feet on the earth red as “ the crimson colored | a
clouds of even”—now advancing and then'o
receding, sometimes with the rapidity of the \
whirlwind—and again with noisless steps
moving with a slowness and tranquility more
appalling, than the most rapid motion or tre
mendous sounds could be, but threaten! n<-
every moment to bury him beneath a moun- g
tain ot sand, (F) his last cruse of water and v
handful of meal cannot prolong his exis- 0
tence many hours, for the wells are far a wav, 1
and his bones must whiten in the desert-^- \l
" Alas I 1
Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold v
Nor friends, nor sacred home.” [Thumfttn't Season,- b
Winter.]
But suddenly he pauses—he gazes as though ®
he peered through the solid earth—what 1
does he see ?—far on the remotest bounds 1
of the horizon he beholds a green Oasis,
more beautiful than the valley of Rocnabad,’ v
already he seems to behold the waving of "
its graceful palm-branches, to smell the o- c
dor of its flowers, to hear the bubling mur- e
tour of its crystal waters, and to feel the
freshness of its air, his last drop of water
and mouthful of meal may give him strength a
to reach it, and he prepares to take them, fi
and then to spring forward with the reno- <1
vated vigor and hopes redolent of life and e
happiness ; but his purpose is arrested, he s
hears a groan, he turns and beholds a poor r
naked Bedouin whose lips are parched with £
thirst, and tongue cleaving to the rootofhis
mouth, gazing like the serpent on his char
med prey, at that drop of water ; what does
the traveller ? does he listen to the cold
calculations of reason ? that would tell him,
this man is neither your Father, Son nor
Brother, he is a poor Arab of the desert who
*! has no claims on you, and may be nothing
( but %n useless link in the chain of Creation,
self preservation is a duty, if you give to him
“ you must die yourself, you have a helpless
1 family who depend on you for support, if
e you perish they must suffer and you will be
worse than an infidel !—does be listen to
[) such suggestions of self ? No! if he be a man
’ and not a Hyena, he springs to his assis*
e tance and with a noble enthusiasm, pours
down his burning throat the cooling drop,
■ and resigns himself to his fate—and this is
1 i (he result of feelings, which, if they are any
3 thing bat the inspirations of heaven itself—
-3 have their source in that faculty which makes
‘ the poet. From whence aiise those aspira
’ tions after glory and posthumous fame, which
| have been felt by every one who ever bene
’ fitted or enlightened the human race ? from
1 reason ?
No, reason asks
, " Can storied urn or animated bust,
Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath I j
Can honors voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold, ear of death I
[Gray's Elegy?.
“ But where is he, the pilgrim of my song
1 Methinks he comelh late and tarrieth long. )
Coragio gentle reader, the ground is now
'cleared for him, and he shall soon enter the
lists again.
A. B. C. &c.
NOTES.
(A.) Blair, definition of potiry is “ that it i> the language of.
passion, or of enlivened imagination formed, most commonly, in
lo regular numbers ”
(B ) The poems called Ossian’s are undoubtedly Macplierson’a
(the pretended translator) the genuine poems of Ossian or
Oism, . re different matters altogether, and very inferior lo the
false, and belong to the Irish anil not to the Scotch highlander!. ,
IC.) •• r e stars that arc the poetry of heaven” 3d Canto Cl. '
Har
(II.) I am willing to admit with Linncus that the common
Mouse loves music, and with Sir Mans Sloane, that the Iguana
of the W est Indies—a species of La certa is particular!, partial
lo the Violin—but exceptions on'y prove the truth of it general
rule, or for all I know of the matter, they may, m Pythagoras’
scale of the transt. ignition of sogls, occupy the last and ht-b
--est places before we return to our human bodies a-ain. and be to
animal life, what a Pa Cu/w is to a Roundelay. “
(K.) Jean J. Rousseau, said that the greatest source of error in
the conduct of met), was that they were not governed by the im
pulses of their feelings, but waited for the snnctlonof their ittdg
ineuts—.that they were consequently seltlsh, for that it was ve
ry cas .V to prove to ourselves that ten Livres would purchase for
us more comforts than live—and that wo would therefore refuse
lo part with them either from generosity or justice if we could
retain them, the •■sell torturing sophist” „as not far wrong
t* •) *'■■« Bruce’s Travels, Dublin K.dition Slh volume I know
of nothing in all the volumes of literature which presents so hor
rible a picture to the imagination as Bruce’s description of the
pillnrx nf moving sand in the Desert between the Nile and the
Red sea since Sir Wm. Jones, Salt, and Dr. K. D. Clarke have
established tile veracitv of JJruce we are allowed (o quote him—
and it might give pleasure as well as instruction to those who
have not—to read Inn)—for surely jl is the most extraordinary of
all books of travel,. ’ 1
A company in London had contracted
with the government of Guatimala, to cut a
canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic, at the
south side of lake Nicaruga. It is to be 12
or 14 miles in length, and navigable for
ships of great burthen. The English are to
receive two thirds of the tolls, and to have
the exclusive navigation of the Sun Juan ;i- -
ver and the lake, for forty years. The re
mainder of the toils to be devoted by the .r O ,
vernment to paying the expense of the un
dertaking.
Twelve Vessels were waiting at Alexan
dria for cotton, the Viceroy of Egypt havin’*
delayed to furnish the quantity contracted
for. A letter from Liverpool, mentions that
the Pacha of Egypt refused to deliver a lar«e
quantity of cotton which he sold to English
speculators, when he ascertained that'ttie
article had risen materially in England,
The manufactories in England are repre -
sented as flourishing beyond all former pre
cedents. Artisans of every description were
in full employment, and so anxious were the
manufactures to have their orders executed
that it was by no means an uncommon thing
to lock up the doors where the workmen
were, and to supply them with food gratis
in order to save the time which
wise be expended in going to their respec-*
live lodgings. Orders to immense amounts
were daily received at the manufacturing
towns, many of which could not be fulfiled
within the prescribed period. Wages were
every where extremely high, and mechanics
were enabled to fare sumptuously for seven
days work. Even common labourers were
in such demand as to cause a considerable
rise in their wages. A Mecclesfield paper
advertises for 4 to 5000 persons, from 7to
20 years of age, to be employed in the silk
trade.
[Lon, pan.
Cleaning of Engravings —Put the en
graving on a smooth board, cover it thinly
with common salt finely powdered ; pmi*
or squeeze lemon juice upon the salt, so as
to dissolve a considerable portion of it • ele
vate one end of the board, so that it ’ may
form an angle of about 45 or 50 decrees
with the horizon. Pour on the engraving
boiling water from a teakettle, until the
salt and lemon juice be all washed off • the
engraving will then be perfectly clean’and
Iree from all stains. It must "be dried on
the board, or on some smooth surface nr*
dually. If dried by ,he lire or the *’.*%
will be tinged with a yellow colour.—Any
one may satisfy himself of the perfect effi
cacy of tins method, by trying it „„ anv
engraving of small value. J
ILondon Mechanic’s Register.
Chinese method of mending China Boil
a piece of white flint glass in river’ water
tor five or six minutes, beat it to a fine puw
der, and grind it well with the white of an
egg, and it joins the china without rivetting
so that no art can break it again in the same
place. Observe, the composition must be
ground extremely fine on a painter’s slab.
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