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istry, or rather cursed, for its inhabitants disregarded his ce- 
lestial instructions, and have, therefore, as he predicted, been 
rought “down to hell,”—stood ‘“‘upon the sea-coast (St. 
Matthew); that is, the sea of Tiberias, or of Chinnereth, and 
according to Carey’s map, on the north shore, near where the 
ordan enters it. The place is now said to be without in- 
habitants. 
30. “From the prison of Jeremiah.” Partially deéiun- 
posed carbonate of lime. ‘Phen took they Jeremiah, and 
cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah, that was in the court 
of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And 
in the pe ies — was DO water, but mire: so Jeremiah 
sunk in the mire” The prison in which the prophet was 
confined; it is Hkely, is near where the temple was situate. 
31 armel.” Several obiong, irregular no-- 
dules of dark brown flint, enveloped, in some instances, by a 
covering, probably siliceous, on which the nitric and sulphu- 
ric acids produce no effect; and in others by ea coating of 
chaik, which these acids dincolve with copious effervescence. 
The fracture of the flint is smooth and conchoidal. The 
characters of this mineral are precisely the same as those of 
the flint I have taken from a chalk bed in Oxfordshire, Eng- 
land. These specimens, if 1 may judge from their appear- 
ance, Came from a similar locality on Mount Carmel. 
But “ chalk,” says Mr. Woodbridge in his generally ac- 
curate and siseliont system of Universal Geography, “ has 
never been observed in America, Asia, Africa, or the south 
of Europe.” The assertion is too strong. After examining 
these specimens of ro surrounded by chalk, Mr Woodbridge 
could not, I am persuaded, feel inclined to maintain that there 
was no locality of chalk 3 in Asia. This substance has been 
foundin America. ‘“ About 35 miles above the mouth of the 
Ohio river, on the west side of the Mississippi, is an exten- 
sive chalk-bed, where vast quantities of this mineral are pro- 
cured. Pervading it are found strata of flint in nodules, 
from two to four inches thick.” (Schoolcrafi’s View of the 
Lead Mines.) - 
32. “ A number of other specimens, from Mount C armel,” 
In a letter to the writer, Mr. Fisk remarks, ‘1 had heard 
very often, that on one of the. summits of Mount Carmel 
there were very curious petrifactions of fruit. The Arabs 
so perfect that, at first sight, you would take them for actna 
