The object of the present paper is to show that with the assistance of the fire-damp detecter, the tin shield, or any other description of lamp, is made as sensitive as the Davy, while its other advantages of resisting velocity, etc., are not in any way interfered with.

I also observed on the walls of the chambers some valuable Japanese colour-prints on which were recent damp-spots.

Smooth gently back the silken hair, From off the death-damp brow; Life's feeble struggles all are o'er, Free is that spirit now.

As no damp-course is required in concrete work, when the aggregate is of a non-porous material, one is not shown.

Mrs. Olney threw one wide and ushered her into a room damp-smelling, and hung with drab, but of good size and otherwise comfortable.