1. Reduce paper to a smooth paste by boiling it in water; then add an equal weight each of sifted whiting "and good size; boil to a proper consistence, and use.

1958. 2. Take equal parts of paper, paste, and size, sufficient finely powdered plaster of Paris to make into a good paste, and use as soon as possible after it is mixed. This composition may be used to cast architectural ornaments, busts, statues, etc, being very light, and receiving a good polish, but it will not stand weather.

1959. The several mountains and other parts being formed, we join them together in their proper places with some of the No. 1. paper cement, rendered rather more fluid by the addition of a little thin glue. The towns were made of a piece of cork, cut and scratched to the form of the town; steeples of cardboard, and trees of blades of moss. Sand was sprinkled in one part; looking-glass in others, for the lakes, bays, and rivers; and green baize flock for the verdant fields.

1950. Monuments, ancient or modern, are better constructed of cork, on account of the lightness and facility in working, the more especially the an-cieut ones. We once constructed a model of the Acropolis of Athens in cork, which was completed in one-fifth the time occupied by other materials, and looked much better; and have lately been at work upon others representing the ancient monuments of Egypt.