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128 SCIOPTICON MANUAL. home, upon mica, glass, or gelatin, and then reproduced upon the screen by the Sciopticon." TRAVELLING BY MAGIC. BY EDWARD L. WILSON. Editor of the Philadelphia Photographer, and Photographic World. Marcy's Sciopticon is what we want to give us a view of the world at large, while seated in our own drawing- room, enjoying all the comforts of home, and the pleas- ures of social intercourse. Give us the Sciopticon, with the necessary slides, before a screen or a white wall, and we will carry you as fast or as slow as you wish, wherever the foot of man has trod, in excellent and comfortable style. First we look upon the screen and, in imagination, we go driving along over the Union Pacific .Railroad. We visit the large cities on our way, and get as good ideas of their grain elevators and their churches as if we stood by their side. We see the Mormon tabernacle, and cap- ture Brigham in person for our screen. On we go, over the prairies, amid the buffaloes, dodging under the great snow-sheds, climbing up the inclines of the jagged Si- erras, and lo! (not "the poor Indian") we stand watch- ing the gambols of the seals in San Francisco Bay, straining our eyes to reach the summit of El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley, listening to the rustlings of the Bridal Veil, or clambering up the sides of " General Grant" in the Mariposa Grove. Or, we may glide up the Hudson, capturing the Pali- sades, storming the Highlands, wander amid the seduc- tive music of Trenton Falls, cross Lake George, "do" Saratoga, "flee to the mountains," squeeze through the Crawford Notch, clamber up Mount Willard, ascend