214 Geology, gc. of Tennessee, &c. 
Arr. II. On the Geology, Mineralogy, Scenery, and Curtosities 
of Parts of Virginia, Tennessee, and the Alabama and Missis- 
‘sippi Territories, &c. with Miscellaneous Remarks, in a letter to 
the Editor. By the Rev. Exras Cornenivs. 
To Benjamin Silliman, Professor, &c. 
SIR, 
Havine $cbiitty returned from a tour of Conair ex- 
tent in the United States, I avail myself with pleasure of the 
first leisure moment, to communicate, agreeably to your request, 
some facts, relative to the Mineralogy and Geology of that rae 
oo ee which I passed. 
sy Sa "INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
Before doing this, you will permit me to premise, that in com 
~ y limited acquaintance with these branches of 
Natural Science, and. the still more limited time, which other 
and important concerns allowed me to devote to the subject, I 
can do little more than give a general description. What my 
eye could catch, as I travelled from one country and d wilderness : 
to another, preserving occasionally a few of the most interes- 
tiny? specimens, was all I could do. The specimens you ha shave 
more leisure and disposition for epicatatinn than myself. 
A description of a few natural and artificial curiosities which 
came under particular notice, will not, 1 trust, be though an im 
ie disgression. The whole is committed to your dispo- 
al; and if it shall add but one mite to the treasury of Amer: 
