198 Miscellanies. 
coal in two principal districts of Pennsylvania, by the Editor of 
this Journal, and the Rev. George Jones. Our limits, also, warn 
us to be brief, and we may expect a better consummation from 
the gentlemen themselves, when their labor is accomplished. 
e have also another reason for brevity in the case of the Ohio 
report ; for just as this number of the Journal is about closing, we 
have received an analysis and review of that report—too long and 
too late for the present number, but which will appear in our next. 
If we have any thing to add to the review, we shall not there- 
fore anticipate it now. In concluding, we have only to say, that 
both Pennsylvania and Ohio, are states whose territories are stored 
in abundance with the principal substances most necessary to 
man; coal in its most important varieties, salt, limestone, iron 
ore and many other things. Ohio, is eminently a vast region 
of organic remains, and even its human antiquities, arrest the at- 
tention of the geologist as well as of the antiquary. Both States 
are in the course of survey by very able men, but we are extreme- 
ly sorry to see that Dr. Hildreth, who worked early and almost 
alone—who worked hard, and who worked well, has withdrawn 
from the survey, and we are still more pe sorry. to. bserve that ill 
health is the cause; fe ra own, may he 
soon be well again! 7 
Dr. Locke, by reason of abainoe i in in Burope, aid not perform the 
duty assigned to him. 
By a letter from Columbus, we regret to learn, that theaingey 
is Just suspended, and party grounds are assigned as the cause! 
On such a subject, there should be but one party. The noble 
State of Ohio, must and will vindicate her honor and her interest 
by resuming and finishing this great work, so ably begun and car- 
ried forward with so much spirit and success! 
_ 8. Fossil Fishes.—It is very generally known at the present day, that 
fossil fishes abound in the sandstone formation of the Connecticut river 
valley. As the study of these fossils, in connection with the rocks in 
which they are imbedded, has become a science of daily increasing inter- 
est and importance, it seems desirable that every one should con 
what local and practical information he may possess, in aid of this impor- 
tant o object. 
Prof. Hitchcock has particularly described localities in several towns of 
; but, so far as I know, he has only occasionally alluded in 
general terms to the occurrence of ichthyolites at Middletown, Ct. One 
