GEOLOGY. 



THE ROGERS' CLASSIFICATION 



OF 



PENNSYLVANIA ROCKS. 



IN " Second Visit" of Lyell, page 249, we are presented 

 with the following startling utterance, (conveying despair to 

 many an aspiring genius, no doubt, who had been imagining 

 his direct connection, and blood and bone alliance, with the 

 stock of Shakspeare and Milton,) viz. " Since experience has 

 now proved that there is, in the Anglo-Saxon mind, an IN- 

 HERENT POVERTY OF INVENTION IN MATTERS OP NOMENCLA- 

 TURE, ETC." Taking up this glove, with the full determina- 

 tion of wiping out so hideous a stain from the genius of the 

 Anglo-American, or Yankee wing, at least, of this omniscient 

 and omnipotent Anglo-Saxon race, the Rogers-brotherhood 

 (Anglo-Saxons, of course,) have made a plunge into the 

 chaos of " inherent poverty," with the following result, in 

 the shape of a nomenclature of the palaeozoic rocks of the 

 State of Pennsylvania. 



Primal series, No. 1. 



Auroral series, 



Matinal series, Nos. 2 and 3. 



Levant series, No. 4. 



Surgent series, No. 5. 

 Scaleut series, 



Pre-Meridian series, No. 6. 



Meridian series, (or Medidial,) No. t. 



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