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“JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 
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. Arr. I.—Address before the Association of American Geologists 
x and Naturalists, assembled at Boston, April 24, 1842; by 
re Prof. B. Sinuiman.* 
‘ Gentiemry OF THE ASSOCIATION :— £ 
Dunne the past year, my labors have been, with few excep- 
“tions, confined to the study, the cabinet, and the laboratory ; while 
“their results, such as they are, have been presented in the Ameri- 
¢an Journal of Science, in the lecture rooms of own univer- 
sity, or in the halls of several of our towns ecco Since 
» Our former meeting at Philadelphia, I have not enjoyed as many 
» Opportunities as in gone-by years, of making original geological 
explorations. In that time, I have been only two days in the 
* field, but those were days of peculiar interest, because they af- 
forded me an opportunity of comparing my own views, respect- 
ing a very remarkable region,t} with those of one whose experi- 
_ ence and knowledge confer peculiar value upon his opinions. 
a Still, I could have much preferred, that the present duty should 
- have been assigned to some one of the able practical explorers 
- * now before us: geologists not of the cabinet, —e but fresh 
_ from actual toil upon the broad field of nature ; fresh from explor- 
: ing tortuous river courses, intricate defiles, precipitous valleys, 
» Mazy caverns, deep mines, impending sea cliffs, lofty mountain 
tops, and alpine glaciers, with their cataracts, their areleuehiats 
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ie af + Delivered in the Swedenborgian Chapel, on Tuesday evening, Age 25, be- 
re the pases. and the public. 
Te ed sandstone and trap fortaation mene New Haven. 
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