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has two square pillars with two figures on every side (Plates4 and 

 5). The walls in every part of this chamber are also beautifully 

 adorned with symbolical figures. It is useless to proceed any 

 further in the description of this heavenly place, as I can assure 

 the reader he can form but a very faint idea of it from the trifling 

 account my pen is able to give. Should I be so fortunate, however, 

 as to succeed in erecting an exact model of this tomb in Europe, 

 the beholder will acknowledge the impossibility of doing it justice 

 in a description." 



In closing our extract from this interesting work, we cannot 

 avoid noticing a rather curious fact, that 15 walking figures in 

 Plates 6, 7, and S, and two standing figures in Plate 17, have 

 each of them two left hands — that is, a left hand hung from their 

 right shoulder; and one figure in Plate 13 has two right hands. 

 We wish Mr. Belzoni to state, whether they are so in the ori- 

 ginals, or whether this be an error resulting from any mechanical 

 means employed in multiplying similar figures when making the 



drawings. 



yl Geological Classificati'in of Rocks, with descriptive Synopses 



of the Species and Varieties; comprising the Elements of 



practical Geology. By John MacCulloch, M.D. F.R.S. 



F.L.S. Vice Pres. Geol. Soc. &;c. 



A work under this title has been lately published, and we take 

 the first opportunity of announcing it to our geological readers. It 

 fills up a blank among the elementarj writings which have been 

 published for the use of students in geology, and supplies a want 

 which must have been felt by every one engaged in that pursuit. 



We have not room to give an analysis of a work extending to 

 near 700 pages ; nor is it indeed, from its very nature, suscepti- 

 ble of much abridgement. A very bare sketch of the plan must 

 suffice, as we presume that there are few cultivators of this science 

 who will not have recourse to Jhe work itself. 



The basis of arrangement is geological ; or the rocks are dis- 

 posed infamilies under their ancient titles (unless where certain al- 

 terations appeared necessary) on a plan analogous to that of the ce- 

 lebrated Werner. We have copied the table of these families, as it 

 will serve to give our readers a general idea of the arrangement. 

 Primary Class. 

 Unstraiified. 



Granite. 

 Stratified. 



Red sandstone. 



(jneiss. 

 Micaceous schist. 

 Chlorite schist. 

 Talcose schist. 

 Hornblende schist. 

 Actinolite schist. 

 Quartz rock. 



Argillaceous schist. 

 Diallage rock. 

 Limestone. 

 Serpentine. 

 Compact fcispiir. 



Se- 



