Report on a Man u script Work 'of M. Andre. $1 7 



tlfese principles, presents two distinct parts, only one of 

 which falls within the province of this class. It is that in 

 which this philosopher relates his observations daring his 

 travels. 



Faithful to the laws of the religious order to which he 

 belongs, M. Andre has traversed on foot numerous and ex- 

 tensive routes : he travelled as an enlightened observer, noted 

 with care the elevations and cavities of the earth ; the nature 

 of stones, and their relative position to each other and to 

 the horizon. He has taken for a model the geologist who 

 first merited this honour, the celebrated Saussure ; that i3 

 to say, he lias described in a precise maimer all the objects 

 which struck him on his route, in the order in which they 

 occurred. 



A chain of mountains traversed and described with so 

 much care, forms the subject of a general view which M. 

 Andre has not failed to trace. It is thus that he exhibits the 

 part of the Alps which he has seen, and which comprehends 

 the space between St. Gothard and St. Bernard. He after- 

 wards passed to the Jura, a secondary ridjie very different 

 from the Alps, which he examined from the fall of the 

 Rhone to the Rhine, that is, nearly its whole length. The 

 Vosges are the third ridge, a part of which was examined 

 from Epinal to Giromaguy. He describes the bank of se- 

 paration which on the one side throws the water to the 

 ocean, and on the other to the Mediterranean ; he likewise 

 passed from the summit of Salins almost to Cluui ; observed 

 and described a part of the plains which unite the Alps to 

 the Jura, and those which, commencing at the Saone, fol- 

 low the course of the Rhine to Strasburgh. 



Although M. Andre, throughout the whole of the first 

 part of his work, frequently alludes to opinions which he 

 endeavours to prove in the second, it is not the less valuable 

 for a great number of interesting facts which he details, and 

 which are independent of all system. Such in the first place 

 are the circi, or circular spaces sunk between high sheltered 

 rocks, which he frequently observed in the Alps. Such, 

 also, are his remarks on certain isolated pyramids, formed 

 of divers layers or strata, the contiguous parts of which must 



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