398 : Miscellanies. 
two methods of classification, the natural and the artificial—or the 
synthetical and the analytical, the author introduces his artificial 
method by the following remarks. 
“ The first object with sa stadent 3 in Wimerajogy being bind age of minors, = 
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The most Siiaiies sh met eilied, aad indeed the one which has hitherto been most 
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quaintance with the mineral kingdom where enjoyed, being without any cer- 
tain mode a awl a is is exceedingly sinstitlory The second thought is to 
— recou of every ; apeitas but the number has 
seo so great, that the labor of reading them over in succession, in order to 
assure ourselves of a single mineral, is too great to be encountered without consid- 
erable fatigue and loss of time, and consequently, see . — An pgaee 
method, therefore, =— — pliant , tolead us, by an 
Its utility in the pseerte kingdom has io 
pocsrad tested ; and the only question to be decided is, what shall become of the 
grounds of our dietaens i in the mineral kingdom, in order to apply to it the same ben- 
efit. 
«If we except the synthetical method of Prof. Mohs, no system is to be found in 
wae the oes eats, cenakd alluded to, is serie d. If, for example, we be- 
stow a few ents g Abbé Haity, the most cel- 
chrated bitheres constructed, and which has been made t is of several popular 
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the genus, and lastly, by perce over the essential differences among the unities 
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himself of this method as respects the classification of Haity? Who analyzes a min- 
eral to determine = as order and genus, with a view of arriving at its name? 
No one certainly. might be asked, who can do it? for how few are able! Most 
clearly then, it subserves no be in sar ss of unknown =e Its 
sole merit consists, in providing for Mineralogy 
the different objects of his knowledge i in his cabinet, and the ideas whlch” relate to 
them, inhis mind. This certainly is an object of much importance, but secondary in 
point of time to the one now under consideration. Per ipformation must first be ac- 
by before it can be philosophically arranged. 
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