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AaAsrATIc PRINTING - It appear. from An ar tice n the Boston Daily Advertiser, that ih's ingen- ,"us method oi copying, which has been lately pro- gated in Eng land with such flourish of trumpeis, IS in truth an American invention. h the Nnth A. mercan Review of October l840 is specimen of lhIs process, the invention o which is due to Mir. Joseph Dixon, formerly of Salem and now of Taunton. This specimen Is a copy from Greek deed, which transferred from engraving made in Rerne WHhOm injuyy 10 the original print A more curious speci- men is in Dr. Potter's work entitled "The Princi- ples of Science applied 10 the Useful Ars,'' book prepared by him for the Common School Library, and published in that series This is al page perfect lv copied from hook of Oriental Criticism which must have been printed more than century ago. The transfer made with several other experi- ments by Mir. Dixon at the Mechanics Fair in l840, and many persons will remember the curious puIi tv and success of the process This !cai copied restored unnjured 10 the book from which it was taken. Mir. Dxon's invention dates lal back as lS32. volume published some yeaIs since by Dr.. Potter, says

 Mir Dixon's mode of transfer is applicable to any printing whether old recent. He fret spreads a liquid. the composition of which he keets secret over The page of print to be copied This page Is then iai't Dn li,hograPIc stone to which, heing pressed, il immediately conveys reversed fat si- mile of itself. From this stone, copies multi piled. al pleasure in the usual manner of hogratb

 c printing The essential peculiarly of the process Ia consist Tn the properties Of the fluid applied 10 the surface oi the print by which the orgiua ink however d, jed and hardened by age, is made 10 act the stone with an influence precisely similar 10 that produced by the common hthrographic drawing IL is exceedingly curious, and adds greatly to the value of the discovery that all tais Id done without m. slightest iarnIsh the orgnal priht the least ,lininution in any way, of its clearness depth o color. Tine whole is done with such lecmy, that a page has been taken from volume, transferred t9 stoae, several copies printed from it, and ihe leaf restore 10 it's place, in it's original state in sixteen IaInnes.

 iii woul be interesting If our hmils would per. mi, to gile history of the steps of Mir. Dixon's discov.iy, as !, would furnish another example nf the htpp, inH ,ence of science in conducting in- genus s;niier 10 a successful issue. The dscove- " nci1ental, hut was the result of patient and hong c,.ntnued research.