The New Hampshire Gazette

SIX MILLION MICROSCOPE.

Our readers are probably aware of the fact that Dr. Vanne, by the application of the intense light produced by the combined combustion of oxygen and hydrogen gases, succeeded, a few years since in producing a magnifying power, immensely exceeding any thing of the kind before in existence. This Microscope is now exhibiting its world of wonders at the American Museum, in New-York. The Editor of the Commercial Advertiser closes a notice of the remarkable powers of this instrument, in the following language.-Burlington Sentinel.

But the most remarkable of all, and that which elicits most our astonishment and surprise, is the appearance of a single drop of pure water, which seems a pond, filled to repletion with the most hideous and ravenous monsters, disporting in ever restless activity. and their forms and motion developed as clearly as on a naturalist's engraving. Pre-eminent among them, is the great Hydrophile or Water-Devil, the shark of this mimic ocean, which every day devours eight times its own weight of insects. These animals, at times, engage in contests of apparently frightful animosity, and again play themselves as if actuated by the most boundless enjoyment. Who that looks at a vase of clear and pure water ere-he puts it to his thirsty and anxious lips, could imagine the world of jarring interests he is consigning to his stomach! We have known a lady who, as far as fear of water goes, has been afflicted with hydrophobia ever since she saw it. We hope it will not have an injurious effect upon the temperance societies.

We cannot close the present article without noticing the vivid difference between the ordinary works of nature, and the most careful and toilsome productions of art. In the exhibition we are speaking of, the sting of a bee, though magnified 5,000,000 times, still appears more beautiful and more perfect than before, tapering to an imperceptible point.- The finest needle that could be procured, on the contrary, has a point like a crow-bar, and is as rough as the shaft of a rusty anchor.- In the exhibition at Peale's, human ingenuity has attained such perfection, as to appear miraculous. Yet those few and simple motions have been produced by years of unremitting thought and labor-and are effected by combinations of machinery so complex, that no calculation almost can follow them out--and beyond its accustomed motions, no power of earth could make one of these almost living figures move. But in Nature, the further we go, the more we see, to humble and astound us.-Even the creatures that people regions beyond the scope of vision, are seen, not only in an infinite diversity of form; but actuated with the appetites, passions, instincts and desires, of the bulkiest inhabitant of earth, and possess, to sustain life, as complex an arrangement of physical organs, as even man -the great lord of all-himself. The reflections the comparison will produce, and the train of awed and wondering feelings it occasions, are irresistible; and afford a more practical proof of the stupendous, all-pervading power of the Deity, than all the arguments of all the theologians that ever existed.