926 Belmont County. 
to the tongtie, and has no degree of translucency on its édgés.— 
As Mr. Kain has furnished you with an interesting detail of par- 
ticular minerals found in East Tennessee and Western Virginia, 
I need not recapitulate what he has so well said. 
€To be continued.) 
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Arr.IIl. Notice of the Scenery, Geology, Mineralogy, Bot- 
any, §-c. of Belmont County, Ohio, by Cares ATWATER, 
Esq. of Circleville. 
Beton COUNTY is bounded on the north by Jeffersot 
and Harrison, on the west by Guernsey, and south by Monr 
county, and on the east by the Ohio river. It is 27 miles if 
length, and 21 in breadth, containing 535 square miles. Its name, 
ont, or beautiful mountain, indicates its situation, for it niger 
tains within its boundaries a fine body of land, rising gradually 
as you are fravelling from thé Ohio to the west, until you a 
tive at about the middle of it, where, from the elevation 0” 
which you stand, the eye in an eastern direction, beholds one of 
the most charming prospects in the state. Looking towards the 
east, ina pleasant morning, you behold a beautiful country of 
hill and dale spread out before you, divided into convenient a 
well-cultivated farms, intersected by glittering streams, mean 
ing through them towards the Ohio. You hear the lowing 
of numerous herds around you, the shrill matin of the song- 
sters of the forest, and the busy hum of the industrious busband- 
man ; you ‘See here and there a clump of trees interspersed 
among the cultivated parts of the country ; you see the comfor 
table dwelling-house, and the substantial barn, and hear the rumb- 
ling noise of the mill; and when you reflect that those who dwell 
here, are industrious and enterprising, virtuous, free and happy: 
you behold with pleasure, and listen with delight, while reflecting 
on the objects around you, 
