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introduce it into every district and private school in the 

 country, and to acquaint every child with the names, 

 ingredients and uses of the rocks he daily observes in 

 his walks, and with the prominent geological features 

 of our country. 



12. It is necessary. Without it, gazetteers and jour- 

 nals of travels cannot be understood. In some places, 

 a knowledge of the great geological features of the 

 earth is as common and familiar, as of the continents 

 and oceans; and consequently without this knowledge, 

 a person is liable to find himself ignorant of the mosl 

 common and familiar topics of conversation, in the soci- 

 ety he will frequently meet. To be destitute of a branch 

 of science so important and accessible, is to be unpro- 

 vided with a great source of mental occupation and en- 

 tertainment for early life, and in the case of teachers, 

 the want of it is the want of a powerful and happy 

 means of influencing the youthful mind. 



If it should be asked how this science can be moat 

 readily introduced into schools, it is answered from nu- 

 merous experiments, that fifty or a hundred labelled 

 specimens, with some small manual to describe them, 

 explaining their ingredients, uses, &c, are sufficient to 

 make a beginning, which if once made, seldom if ever 

 fails to be extended to a general knowledge of the 

 subject. 



QUESTIONS. 



What two sciences give a description of the earth ? 



Which gives the names, situation, and number of 

 continents, islands, mountains, &c, Geography or Ge- 

 ology ? 



Which gives a description of cities, kingdoms, and 

 empires? 



Which acquaints us with the ingredients and struc- 

 ture of mountains, islands, and continents, Geography 

 oj* Geology? 



Which informs us of the original structure of the 

 earth, and the various changes it has undergone by 

 earthquakes, volcanoes, and the gradual hand of time ? 



