230 Belmont County. 
Captina is another excellent mill stream, which after running 
about 17 or 18 miles in this county, puts into the Ohio 23 
miles by water below Wheeling. These streams visit and fer- 
tilize a considerable part of Belmont. 
rom the view we have taken of this county, its geology, 
mineralogy, and botany, the reader will probably be prepared 
with us to conclude that no part of the union, of equal extent, 
contains within it greater natural resources, or can support & 
more dense population. 
The seat of justice is St. Clairsville, situated ten miles from 
the Ohio river, at Wheeling. It contains three houses for pub- 
lic worship, 15 stores, a printing-office, a bank, and 700 inhab- - 
itants. . 
Many of the inhabitants of this county are Quakers or 
Friends, who are charitable, humane, frugal, enterprising, in- 
' dustrious, and strongly opposed to slavery. From such a pop- 
ulation, possessing such advantages, what may we not hope 
_ and expect from their exertions? Their fertile valleys will 
be turned into meadows, and their hills into pastures; the ox 
will fatten in the former, whilst the flocks of Andalusia will whi- 
ten the latter. : 
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Arr. IV. Remarks on the Structure of Calton Hill, near Edin- 
burgh, Scotland ; and on the Aqueous origin of Wacke ; by J.W 
Wesster, M. D. of Boston. 
s 
Tur country around Edinburgh is extremely interesting 
the geologist, and presents numerous instances of the junction 
of rocks to which the advocates of the Neptunian system have 
‘referred in support of their opinion as to the aqueous origif 
of greenstone, basalt, and wacke; while the same examples 
have been cited by the Volcanists, and by those who hold an 
intermediate opinion. The structure of a portion of Calton 
