238 Miscellaneous Notices in Mineralogy, Geology, &¢. 
I have embodied many new facts relative to the natural His- 
tory, scenery and inhabitants of the Highlands of New-York 
and New-Jersey, obtained by personal examination. 
15. The Globe had a beginning. 
Mr. Amos Eaton, lecturer on Geology and Botany at 
Troy, Professor in the Castleton Institution, &c. infers that 
e earth is not eternal, because the ruins of its rocks in the 
ss of gravel, sand, &c. being constantly borne down by 
; torrents, Re: to the sea and other low situations, 
= i ought by this time to be no “ projecting rocks,” not 
one “naked cliff,” but all should have been “ allu vial.” 
By collecting and drying the sediment from the water of 
the river Hudson, opposite to the city of Albany, during 
three days of the great freshet of April, 1819, he found that » 
it amounted to a certain quantity for every quart of water; 
the wean § of water being duly estimated from the dimen- 
sions of the channel and the rapidity of the current, Mr. 
Eaton. computes that oan hundred 4 tons rel alluvial earth 
passed in three days 
16. Hill of Serpentine. 
Extract of a letter from Dr. William sey dated West- 
jield, Mass. ns 125-4 
With this letter I send you some specimens of stove 
which abound i in this neighborhood. In the second num- 
ber of your Journal of Science, Sib there is an account of 
the di Ad strata in the Southampton level leading to the 
‘mine, in which the writer, Mr. Amos Eaton, mentions 
a vein or quarry of serpentine rock between this town and 
Russel. The dark coloured specimens are, I 
- eCil sinationsit: sbover are os green 
, with numerous patches and spots of talc, and 
