360 Geological Survey. 
view of having it published in its present form, but merely 
as materials* contributed towards the completion of the 
great design. 
t is not our object to present an analysis or review of 
Mr. Eaton’s Report, (especially as it is yet incomplete,) 
but merely to announce this part of it, in the respectful 
terms which it deserves. We confess we regret any unne- 
cessary innovations in geolovical nomenclature, or any de- 
viations from the present highly improved state of the sci- 
ence, on the eastern continent, unless where new facts and 
discoveries imperiously demand such a course. If we were, 
however, disposed to criticism, we should be restrained by 
the obvious propriety of waiting until the evidence can be 
examined by impartial judges, and we fully concede the 
ight to be heard with candour, and to be judged with fair- 
ness, to the laborious and faithful geologist who has travel- 
led more than three thousand miles on foot, and seven 
thousand more in other modes, in order to acquire a knowl- 
e of the facts which he describes, and the power of ob- 
serving and describing them; at the same time, we are al- 
ways gratified, and especially in the case of scientific works, 
when assertions and opinions are announced, not magiste- 
ae 
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most of those 
orous effort which have marked his former geological re- 
, and if he is ready to manifest a preference for his 
opinions, he has shewn himself equally candid in re- 
my 
: *For the more fall explanation of which, h - pro 
extensive communications in former numbers of this Journal. 
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