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dices. and sneers of their countrymen, were not to be 
damped, or disheartened. They have presented to the 
world the grand outlines of the geology and mineralogy of 
this vast country, and left nothing to be done by the nume- 
rous geologists, who have sprung up under their patronage 
and instruction in almost every part of the land, but to sup- 
ly the local details and put a finishing hand to the picture. 
t is in our newer, or, as they are sometimes called, the 
tertiary formations, that the greatest deficiency exists. 
he work, at the head of this article, comes to us under 
circumstances calculated to excite high expectations of its in- 
terest and value. Itis the joint production of two gentle- 
men. with whose names we have been familiar in the later 
publications m Europe, on mineralogy and geology : and it 
professes to embody all that has hitherto been ascertained 
by themselves, or others, relative to the internal structure of 
a country, which, asa whole, has probably been more 
thoroughly explored, than any other on the globe. The 
volume before us is only the first part of the work ; and em- 
_ We have not read this work with the eyes of verbal erit- 
ies, and we confess ourselves to have had sone prejudices 
in favour of the writers, from what we had seen of their ear- 
lier productions; too well known to need enumeration. 
With the purity and neatness, not to say occasional elegance 
