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Where we find so much to commend, we cannot be strong- 
ly disposed to censure, and the light faults of style, if such 
they are, seem hardly worthy of notice. 
To a man, who in a cheerful and engaging manner, is con- 
stantly imparting to us valuable and interesting information, 
we feel little disposed to say ; sir, your style, delightful as it is, 
is sometimes a little careless, abrupt and elliptical. It is ev- 
idently not intended by the author, to march in stately grav- 
ity, although on subjects of a grave and moral cast, he is con- 
siderate and judicious, and never leaves us in doubt as to 
his good principles. 
e freedom of the author’s style, make us more and more, 
parties to his adventures, and we feel that had we been with 
im, we should have talked, (or wished to talk) in the same 
animated and free style in which he has written, 
Art. XX.—Description of the High Rock Spring, at Sar- 
atoga Springs, in the County of Saratoga, and State of 
ew York, with a drawing, communicated for the Journal 
of Science, by Joun N. Street, M. D. 
is, unquestionably, entitled to a conspicuous place in the 
scientific journals of the day; and, although it has 
edition of his “ Dissertation on the mineral waters of Sara- 
toga,” published in 1809, gave a very imperfect drawing of 
the rock, which, I believe, is the only one ever pu lished.— 
In remarking upon it, the venerable Dr. very justly observes : 
“ The more we reflect upon it, the more we must be convin- 
ced of the important place this rock ought to hold among 
the wonderful works of nature. Had it stood upon the bor- 
ders of the Lago d’ Agnano, the noted Grotto del Cani which 
burdens almost every book which treats upon the carbonic 
acid gas, since the peculiar properties of that air have been 
known, would never have been heard of beyond the environs 
