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gle of eighteen or twenty degrees, from the top of which we 
have a view of the central part of the Narragansett, with sev- 
eral of its beautiful islands. East, a plain presents itself, 
intersected by a ravine, overgrown with shrubs, along which 
ows asmall stream of water from the swamp. North, the 
land rises gently, and for some extent is completely cover- 
ed with huge, misshapen rocks, lying wholly above the 
surface ; gray with moss, and exhibiting ten thousand frac- 
t 
S. 
Very Respectfully yours 
PEEPS ISS STETTBEN TAYLOR. 
Preceptor of the Charlesfield Street Academy. 
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Art. Il.— Review of “ Outlines of the Geology of England and 
Wales ; with an Introductory Compendium of the General 
Principles of that Science: And Comparative views of the 
Structure of Foreign Countries. By Rey. W. D. Co- 
nyBeare, F’. R.S. M.G.S. &c,and Wittiam Puituies, 
F. L.S. M. G.S. &c. Part I: pp. 470. London, 
1822,” 
(Communicated for this Journal.) 
Peruaps to no science, can the poet’s description .of 
Fame be so properly applied, as to geology : 
Mobilitate viget viresque acquirit eundo. 
It is not much above thirty years since systematic and ef- 
fective efforts were made in this science, by men of ener- 
getic minds and persevering research. Previously to that 
lime, indeed, facts were accumulating, and some efforts 
Worthy of praise, were made, to find out a clue to their ar- 
rangement. The names of several Arabian writers, upon 
the mineralogical department of geology, as early as the 
tenth century ; of some Ae ee the, pani rsaves ad 
on fossil shells, among whom boccacie ; 
Veihan fe Beswan: Me Palissey, Rouelle and Guettard, 
in France; and of Owen, Woodward, Liwydd, aka 
Mitchell, Holloway, Packe, Strachey, and others, a: ng- 
land, will always be remembered with respect in Oe isto- 
ry of this science. Still however, until the time of Hutton 
