Reply of J. D. Dana to the foregoing article by Mr. Couthouy. 
Mr. Covrnovy in his preceding remarks, has made out a aa 
plausible story, yet not to the total concealment of the truth. Whe 
nent is reduced to — extremities as dwelling upon the use of thé 
pronouns “we” and “ws,” or quibbling about the phrases “ abstract” and 
** duplicate minutes’ sahien he finds it necessary for his case, to affirm 
what he has before denied and deny his former affirmations, to twist oe 
ook Ji mselves, w 
faith and honor as a man.” But not to deal in assertions alone, we may 
ene . a few particulars in the orth e reply. ak 
its most striking feature is the iabdued tone with which the . 
subject is approached. A second, no less prominent, is the implied ad- 
n of — Aime before forgotten :—for example, the reading of — 
es Sint ement to codperate in our observations, &c. Not to j 
dwell on fees Geboiaricies, Wwe may pass in rapid review a few of his | 
more cogent arguments and then dismiss a su 
or a reply to his observations upon ‘‘ misused confidence,” we need 4 
already been asserted and admitted on both sides. That his conscience 
should have slumbered for a while is natural; his own unkindness would 
no ish at on remembrance of the past. I may a a 
is that friendship that could publish at all on the subject of corals after 
the understanding—now acknowledged—that we should I 
ur Investigations and rt? What ’the honorable feeling that could 
viola obligations—sacred, at least, aniong professed frien Su 
picions might reasonably be aroused after such a frien eed . 3 
It pains me thus to deal with one whose friendship once was valued, 
with whom kind acts were long rec procate as the case stands, 
there | is little virtue in withholding the t proc eed then to pein ee, 
reply. 
cin the course of the attack in Vol. iy of this Journal, Mr. C. Be 
ore than once to the “duplicate minutes” which contained “the m 
a of his observations” at sea, and afforded the facts on the oe 
perature of the ocean inserted in his article on corals. In the precea oF 
* Boston Journal, Vol, IV. 
