and the other Azores. 253 
the basalts of Saxony, or even those of Scotland and Ire- 
an 39 
The “ Introduction” to Dr Webster’s book, contains 
an account of the discovery and early history of the 
Azores, dein, and condensed from all the best authori- 
ties. islands included under the aca name o 
Azores, or OW esieks Islands, are nine in nu and a 
called San Miguel, or St. Michael, St. Mary, "Peres, St. 
eorge, Graciosa, Fayal, Pico, Flores and Corvo. The 
gr oup, in general may be considered as extending 2 faa 37° 
to 39° 45’ of N. lat. and from 25° to 31° of W. long. It is 
situated in the Atlantic ocean, sport eight hundred miles 
west from Cape St. Vincent, and at nearly the same dis- 
tance from the shores of Africa and America.” St. Michael 
is the largest of those islands, and is that which has com- 
manded the principal attention of the author. The obser- 
vations extend to most of those topics which usually arrest 
the attention ofa traveller, and many highly ero we ns 
accounts are given of the customs and manners of the in- 
habitants, which are in some respects peculiar and spent 
to be but imperfectly known to the rest of the world. 
The following is an account of tbe dies appearance of 
the island of St. Michael. The view from the anchorage 
on the south side of the island, teas vessels ride about a 
mile distant from the shore, is uncommonly varied and pic- 
turesque. Immediately at the water’s edge stands the city 
of Ponta Delgada, the principal town of St. Michael. It 
takes its name from the point Delgada, a little to the east- 
ward of which it is situated, and from the uniform white- 
ness of the houses has, at a distance, an air of great neat- 
ness and even of beauty. The buildings rise above each 
. other with great regularity as they recede from the sea, and 
* It will be seen from President Cooper’s memoir vee volcanoes and volca- 
nic productions, thathe is of = different opinion. It is obvious however from 
the citation which he makes of the “ Basalt’’ of Mount ber in Massa- 
chusetts, that he uses the word at least in that instance, and insome similar 
cases in such an extent, as to include greenstone-for suck Mount Holyoke de- 
‘ ies Bake- 
most trap rocks. 
ster uses the word Basalt, we must say, that we have never seen a specimen 
American Basalt. ‘This w e know to be the fa goa Col. 1. Gibbs ; 4, Term 
ber of years since, we th r. Mac 
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