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railway station. The water overflows from this well, at the 

 rate of ten gallons per minute, at five feet above the surface ; 

 at the depth of 100 feet it supplied to the pumps 48 gallons 

 per minute ; and it is probable, that wherever they might bore 

 to the same depth under any house or street in the town, water 

 would rise to nearly the same height as that to which it rises 

 at the railway station. This water comes from a sandy stratum 

 in the tertiary formations that overlie the chalk, which forms 

 the foundation of the geological basin in which Southampton 

 stands. 



In conclusion, Dr Buckland alluded to the many admirable 

 contrivances by which the Creator has adapted both the waters 

 and the land to supply the wants of all organized beings He 

 has placed upon this beautiful world. The whole of what is 

 now dry land had been upraised by the agency of earthquakes 

 and volcanic forces from the bottom of the sea; and the entire 

 surface of the globe has been rent by millions of fractures and 

 fissures destined, to serve an important purpose, as reservoirs 

 and conduits, for pouring everlasting supplies of water into the 

 springs and rivers that run among the hills. Amidst apparent 

 confusion, science finds method and order ; from seemingly 

 discordant and perturbate elements, she extracts evidences of 

 concord and harmony, and benevolent design, teaching lessons 

 of gratitude to the Almighty Author of every natural good, the 

 giver of every moral benefit and religious blessing. 



On Fossil Fishes. 



1. Classification. 2. Illustrated by comparative Anatomy. 



3. hnportance in Geology, 



Agassiz having now finished his great work on Fossil Fishes, 

 we have much pleasure in laying before our readers the fol- 

 lowing observations on this important work : — 



1. Classification. 



1. In a zoological point of view, the most important fact 

 is, that M. Agassiz' s work makes us acquainted with upwards 

 of a thousand species of fishes, more than the half of which 

 are described in detail, and carefully represented of the natural 



