TELEGRAPHS.
The construction of those in France differs from ours in consisting of one principal pole, and two arms, moveable at the ends. There are four in Paris; one, on the Louvre, which corresponds with Lille; another, on the Place de la Concorde, with Brest; a third, on one of the towers of the church of St. Sulpice, with Strasburg; and the fourth, on the other tower of the said church, which is meant to extend to Nice, but is as yet carried no farther than Dijon. To and from Lille, which is 120 leagues distant from Paris, intelligence is conveyed and received in six minutes, three for the question, and three for the answer.
Yet, however expeditious this intercourse may seem, it is certain that the telegraphic language may be abridged, by preserving these machines in their present state, but at the same time allotting to each of the signs a greater portion of idea, without introducing any thing vague into the signification.
Independently of the public curiosities, which I have described, Paris contains several
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.
Among them, those most deserving of attention are:
ADANSON'S cabinet of Natural History, Rue de la Victoire.
CASAS' cabinet of Models and Drawings, Rue de Seine, Faubourg St. Germain.
CHARLES'S cabinet of Physics, Palais National des Sciences et des Arts.
DENON'S cabinet of Drawings, &c. Hôtel de Bouillon, Rue J. J. Rousseau.