writer ; and, although the expressions 

 may not be clothed in habiliments which 

 might render them attractive to the 

 critical acumen of the scientific artist, 

 still, it is thought, the material offered 

 may be wrought into such shape and 

 fitness, by the aid of his skill, as to 

 present, to the mind's eye, a picture 

 of the earth's surface, as it once ap- 

 peared, which may be viewed and 

 reflected upon, with both pleasure and 

 instruction, by a large portion of its 

 present race of intelligent inhabitants. 

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