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146 Remarks on Professor Eaton’s Communication. 
Art. XXIV.—Remarks additional to the Review of Cony- 
beare and Phillips’s Geology of England and Wales, 
(Vol. VII. No. >. of this Journal.) with reference to the 
tia igiesd = of Professor Eaton in the last No. of ie 
work, page 2 
[Communicated by the author of the Review.—Ed. | 
We have doubted whether the remarks of Mr, Eaton 
upon our review of the work of Conybeare and Phillips, 
call for any thing additional from us. We certainly have 
no disposition to engage in a controversy on the subject, 
nor do we perceive any evidence that such is Mr. Eaton? s 
desire. But we think he has misapprehended us in some 
respects, and probably his views differ in some respects 
from ours ; and we feel it to he due to him, as well as to 
ourselves, to explain our real meaning, and to to give our 
reasons for some of the opinions advanced in that review. 
If we do not misapprehend this gentleman, he represents 
us as recommending the adoption, by American geologists, 
of the new classification of rocks proposed by Mr. Cony- 
beare. We really had no such intention ; “ee we cannot 
see that our lenaukee conveys this idea erely said 
that we were * pleased with its peiarkable simplicity,” 
and could not “see but it answered every purpose of 
primitive, transition, and secondary ;” and after stating 
the system. we left it to others to form their opinion of if, 
without offering any further arguments in its favour. Nay, 
we did not even say that we had adopted the system our- 
selves, But were we frankly to give our views concerning 
the propriety of adopting this system, not only among 
American, but also European geologists, we confess that 
our recommendation would be given in favour of it. For 
we still cannot see why it does not “exhibit an utter 
adhe of all hypothesis.” The principle on which the 
of this classification rests is simply on that some 
e te ' 
atk. are usually found above other roc 
employed by Mr. Conybeare to d@firuate his Fove 
(inferior, sub-medial, medial, super-medial, and superior,) 
certainly imply nothing more. Now it appears to us, that 
this principle is merely one of those facts in geology that 
