102 THE MOUNTAIN. 



Post-Meridian series, (or Post-Medidial,) No. 8. 



Cadent series, " " 



Yergent series, " " 



Ponent series, No. "9. 



Yespertine series, No. 10. 



Umbral series, No. 11. 



Serai series, Nos. 12 and 13. 



This symbolical category is predicated on the dream of 

 the "deposits of a prodigious sea," and the intercalation, in 

 the eternity a parte-ante, of an extraordinary day, com- 

 puted to be seventeen millions of millions of years long, 

 from morning until evening twilight. The poets are not all 

 dead, and the "inherent poverty" of the Anglo-Saxon mind 

 is not so positively "proved by experience," after all. 



There being a considerable row on hand, with regard to 

 the appropriation of the glory of baptizing the great system 

 of sedimentary rocks of North America, it has been thought 

 best to wait for a subsidence of the mud stirred up by the 

 fury (we mean, of course, scientific zeal ! !) of the intellectual 

 Saurians, who are now contending for the honor of deposit- 

 ing that shining and eternal coprolite in the sediment of the 

 ocean of fame, to wit, the "NOMENCLATURE" of said illus- 

 trious palaeozoic pile. After clear water has been esta- 

 blished, and we can see through the turbid boil and battle 

 of words, there will be substituted for the humble numbers, 

 1, 2, 3, etc., the elaborated French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, 

 or Sanscritism, finally arranged by the individual, or Con- 

 gress of savans, to be THE THING, fixed and established for- 

 ever. 



