Intelligence and Miscellanies.—Domestic. 185 
er caricaturing the animal, I became immediately satisfied 
that he had no ) pretensions to be considered an undescribed 
ora djatinet species. For in most other respects, he ¢ seems 
to agree with the Hamster of Georgia, called by some the 
Gopper, which was described by me in 1804, and publish- 
ed that year, with a figure, by A. Anderson, i in the New- 
(p. 525.) For President Meigs’s and Governor Milledge’s 
exertions to investigate the history of this shy and trouble- 
some little animal, you may consult the 5th volume of the 
Medical Repository, p. 89 
The chief use of his bags or pouches is to carry earth and 
sand. He is a great digger and travels much under ground. 
To enable him to make his excavations more completely, he 
fills his bags with earth, and brings it up. He empties them 
by pressing out their contents with his fore paws. It does 
not appear that they are the receptacles of food ; for they 
have no connexion whatever with the mouth. et m me en- 
treat you to explain this matter as soon as you can, to your 
correspondents, that this travestied rat may no more appear 
in the books of zoology ; and Jet me at the same time soli- 
cit the continuance of your good will. 
SAMUEL L. MITCHILL. 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
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I. Domestic 
1. Opinion of Professor Buckland of the University of 
Oxford, respecting certain features of American Geology. 
Extract . a letter to the Editor, dated Shrivenham, near 
arringdon, Berks, (Eng.) June 4, 1821. 
Sir, 
I having sn received, from my friend, the Rev. Pro- 
fessor Buckl the annexed interesting detail respecting 
the Geological Aly recently ee: to exist between 
Vor. IV.....No. 1 
