250 Mr. Redfield’s Second Reply to Dr. Hare. 
knew. Thirty five years ago, some eight or ten* individuals be- 
gan to labor in this country in the great cause in which we are 
engaged. It has flourished beyond our most sanguine expecta- 
tions, and we now behold around us, or we recognize in all our 
states, a numerous corps of well instructed, zealous and active 
geologists. 
Upon this happy result, while I congratulate the Association, 
my emotions of pleasure are chastened by the recollection that 
among our attending members on the present occasion, I stand 
in this place almost the sole representative of the original corps 
of American geologists—one half of whom are gone to that land 
from whose bourne no traveller returns. Macrure, Mircuit, 
Gisss, Bruce, and Seyserr are among the dead. 
Gentlemen, let us not forget that our labors must also have an 
end; and when we too shall have reached our goal, may we be 
cheered onward by a well founded hope, that this tangible earth 
which we now see and explore, may be exchanged for the heaven 
of our faith and hope—that glorious world whose very atmos- 
phere is moral purity and love, and whose cloudless firmament 
glows with the light of eternal truth, ? 
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Arr. I—Reply to Dr. Hare's further Objections relating 
Whirlwind Storms ; With some Evidence of the Whirling 
Action of the Providence Tornado of August, 1838; by W- . 
C. Reprietp. Hs 
In my Reply to the objections and strictures of Dr. Hare,t 1 
attempted to show that these could have no weight or efficacy 10 
disproving the whirlwind character of violent storms and torua 
does, and that good evidence of whirlwind action in the tornado 
of New Brunswick was afforded by those very facts which he 
had set forth as disproving its rotation. see 
Having corrected the errors into which my opponent had fallen, 
Talso referred to additional proofs of rotation which had been 
afforded by this tornado. This was deemed sufficient in reply!"8 
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2, Mitchill, Bruce, Cleaveland, Gilmer, Hayden, Hall, (Fred) 
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