“rvations, by Professor Dewey. 6&9 
tiguity. to inexhaustible coal beds, and to the rapids of James 
river, is an tree location for manufactories. 
I d in the neighbourhood of Fredericksburg, under 
‘stor Fpontiderably- tolling the rock at the Rich- 
mond coal beds, argillaceous strata, embracing vegetable 
impressions and small beds of coal. It is probable coal will 
be found in this vicinity ; I observed similar indications in 
— quarried near the Potomac, 25 miles west of Washing- 
"The sand stone found on the Potomac below Washington, 
appears not an old apni In boring at Alexandria for 
water, after rough sand stone, described as resem- 
bling the ordinary rock of the Potomac, a stratum of cla 
like fuller’s earth, was penis near three on without 
ing its termination. 
ART. AV. = Movcofobagiea: Sone By Professor 
_C. Dew liber 
rome oot! Meteorological Ohsetvaithins is gener- 
form the only data from which the 
laws sceondig to which changes inthe atmosphere take 
place, can be derived. Attention to them is continually in- 
Various proposals have been lately made for the 
ef a Meteorological Journal, which shall embody the results 
of the observations made over our extensive country. A vast 
many of the observations which have been published, and 
different aval places have been numerous. — There is such 
i at the different 
