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with his New Creations springing out of fiery mists, 

 to leave his unsubstantial visions, and imitate the 

 Professor's creed. 



M That the apparent irregularities which at first sight 

 present themselves to our attention in the grand arrange- 

 ments in the mineral kingdom, are the offspring of our own 

 feeble powers of observation, and disappear when the phe- 

 nomena are examined in all their relations. It is then in- 

 deed that the mind obtains those enduring and sublime 

 views of the power of the Deity, which, in geology, reward 

 the patient observer, raise one of the most beautiful and 

 interesting departments of natural science to its true rank, 

 and prove that its relations connect, as it were, in the scale 

 of magnitude, the phenomena of the earth with those more 

 extensive arrangements presented to our intelligence in the 

 planetary system, and in the grand frame-work of the uni- 

 verse itself." — App. p. 151. 



Captain Parry, in observing on the extreme faci- 

 lity with which sounds are heard at considerable 

 distances in severely cold weather, relates a circum- 

 stance that occurred at Port Bowen in confirma- 

 tion of the fact. " Lieutenant Foster having occa- 

 sion to send a man from the observatory to the 

 opposite shore of the harbour, a measured distance 

 of 6696 feet (about a mile and two-tenths), in order 

 to fix a meridian mark, had .placed a second person 

 half-way between, to repeat his directions ; but he 

 found on trial that this precaution was unnecessary, 

 as he could without difficulty keep up a conversa- 

 tion with the man at the distant station. The ther- 

 mometer at the time was 18° ; the barometer 30* 14 

 inches ; weather calm, clear and serene." 



