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of Schockoe Creek, near Richmond, and the miocene beds of James 
river below that city, in company with Mr. Ruffin, Jr., and descending 
the river he touched at Jamestown, Williamsburg and Norfolk, and 
passed rapidly on over the barrens of North Carolina and a corner of 
the “* Great Dismal” to Weldon and Wilshington, aad thence by steamer 
to Charleston, 8.C. Without Charleston he hasten- 
ed by railroad to Augusta, Ga. with the intention of examining the low 
country between the granitic region and the Atlantic, by following 
the course of the Savannah river from Augusta to Savannah, a distance 
of about two hundred and fifty miles. This he did by making frequent 
stops wherever it appeared that the inducement was sufficient, as at 
Shell Biuffnear Demerry’s Ferry, forty miles below Augusta, at Stony 
Bluff about seventy miles below where the “‘ Burr stone” rocks appear, 
belonging to the eocene tertiary formation. Col. Jones of Millhaven 
conducted him to Jacksonborough, and other places of interest to a 
geologist. From Millhaven he proceeded by land to Savannah, about 
one hundred miles, where he arrived ten days after leaving Augusta, 
The vicinity of Savannah afforded him industrious employment in ex- 
amining the mastodon and mylodon deposits at Heyner’s Bridge on the 
White Bluff river, and also at Beauly and Vernon rivers. Returning 
by sea to Charleston, Dr. Ravenel accompanied our tourist on an ex- 
cursion of a week up the Cooper river and Santee canal, where the 
mastodon and other interesting fossils were found abundantly when the 
canal was cut; they visited on this jaunt also the ‘t Lime Sinks” in the 
vicinity of Vance’s Ferry, the tertiary white marl and limestone of Cave 
Hall, the “ Burr stone” on Stoudenmire Creek, and they returned to 
Charleston from Orangeburg by railroad. On his return north he stopped 
at Wilmington and collected eocene and miocene fossils, and visited sev- 
eral places on Cape Fear river, and at South Washington saw the same 
cretaceous beds containing Belemnites, &c. which appear in New Jersey; 
three hundred and fifty miles north. . Mr. Ruffin and Mr. Tuomey 
were his companions in fossilizing in the tertiary beds near Petersburg 
in Virginia, and at Washington City he had an interview with the lamented 
Nicollet, and saw the cretaceous fossils brought by that zealous explorer 
and eminent astronomer from the Upper Missouri. Six weeks were 
now spent (Feb. 1, 1842) at Philadelphia in delivering a “ short course” 
of geological lectures. Several weeks next succeeding were spent 
at New York in giving another course of lectures, during which Mr. 
Redfield accompanied him to Long Island while viewing the ancient 
and modern drift of that island. From New York he went again up the 
Hudson to view the greatly disturbed Silurian slates at Hudson City, and 
by railway to Chester and Westfield over the Taconic Mountains, com- 
posed of altered Silurian strata, out of which Dr. Emmons has con- 
structed his “ Taconic System.” - 
