THE 



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PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITIKG A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE * 



[ENCES AND THE ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



Jl^fOBERT JAMESON, 



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 norary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of ComwaU, 

 and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern, 

 and Cork Institutions ; of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and New- 

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 of New York ; of the New York Historical Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New 

 York ; of the Natural History Society of Montreal; of the Geolc^ical Society of France ; of the 

 South African Institution of the Cape of Good Hope ; of the Franklin Institute of the State of 

 Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts ; of the Geological Society of Pennsylvania, 

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APRIL... OCTOBER 1834. 

 VOL. XVII. 



TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. 



EDINBURGH: 



ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH : 

 AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN, 



LONDON. 



1834. 



