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 *tended, hitherto, with perfect success, may yet, like balloons, turn out to the most valuable account, when taken into hand by more skilful philosophers. The Editor here begs leave to remark, that the Diaculum Drawers abovementioned, are the only fabrics of the kind he ever heard of, and verily believes they are hitherto non-descript. He has some reason to think they are yet extant (and should they be, they are worthy the search of the Dilettanti); for a sort of flannel breeches, apparently prepared in the same manner, but much damaged by time, &c. were last week offered to the Leverian Museum, but are said, for delicate reasons, to have been rejected by the proprietor as unfit for exhibition. What false delicacy! when the man pesters us every day with a non-descript in the papers; some old stinking fish, that never could be of service to man, woman, or beast! whereas the drawers, like the North-west passage, if they could be once discovered, might prove hereafter of the greatest fundamental consequence to mankind at large, the Venetians only excepted.

THE EDITOR.