Geology of England Wales, §-c.” 207 
of style, in which this work is mostly written, we are much 
gratified: especially when we recollect, how often works of 
merit, inthis department of knowledge, give pain to the 
classical man, by the homely and uncouth dress in which 
they are presented. In this work “a satisfactory proof has 
been afforded in opposition to the misrepresentations of 
shallow sciolists, that the institutions of academical educa- 
tion are far from being unfavourable to the cultivation of the 
physical sciences, and thatan ignorance of the rules of clas- 
sical composition, and of the languages and philosophy of 
polished antiquity are by no means essential advantages in 
ore us recognises, When those divisions shall have bee 
carried so re ast no two species can be blended together, 
and all the rocks of the globe are referred to their proper de- 
&tees in the scale, then will geology have reached the u/tr 
ma Thule of her dominions. = 
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