The Launch of a Packet-Ship 757 Fulton’s First Steamboat 759 An Ocean Steamer 762 Chinese Junks 766 The Banyan-Tree 769 The Reindeer Sledge 772 The Prairie on Fire 775 The Date-Palm 779 The Bamboo-Tree 782 Continental Money 783 The Signal Telegraph 785 The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph 787 Faust taking First Proof from movable types 789 Franklin’s Printing-Press 790 Hoe’s Eight-Cylinder Power Press 792 The India-Rubber Tree 793 The Old Round Tower at Newport 795 Submarine or Diving Armor 796 Manner of working the Diving-Armor 797 Tree House in Caffraria 799 The Camphor-Tree 801 Tree Temple at Matibo in Piedmont 803 Ant-Hills of the White Ant 805 Huts in Kamtschatka 806 Taking a Whale 807 Landing of the Pilgrims 809 Plymouth Rock 810 Early Settlers of New England going to Church 811 THE =Wonders of the World.= ------------------------------------ MOUNTAINS. “And lo! the mountains print the distant sky, And o’er their airy tops faint clouds are driven, So softly blending that the cheated eye, Forgets or which is earth, or which is heaven!”—FAY. “Mountains and all hills—let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.”—DAVID.