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GEOLOGICAL. i>0 



2 water, 



1 oxide of iron. 



After the process of calcination, it is to bs 

 ground, and tiien mixed with an equal weight of 

 clean sand, which will be twice as bulky as the 

 lime, and it must be mixed with clean water, and 

 as little as possible. 



I am told that a great limestone ridge runs 

 through the whole of this country, east and west— 

 that north of it a ledge of gypsum commences } 

 also a range of salines — and that on the borders 

 of the gypsum and salt regions, there is a tier of 

 lime stone alternating with sand stone, and full 

 of organic remains ; adjacent to which the water 

 lime is found — and that this valuable fossil is in 

 great abundance over a line of country of at least 

 100 miles extent. The most eastern salt spring 

 as yet discovered is about 25 miles west of Utica ; 

 at the same distance g} psum commences. This 

 affinity between salt and g3psum exists all over 

 the world. I find the geology of this country 

 most extraordinary ; it is sui generis. In using 

 the technology of Werner, I beg you to under- 

 stand that I am no disciple of his school. I adopt 

 it to explain my ideas in conformity to received 

 and general nomenclature. We are yet in the 

 horn book of this science. The lapse of ages will 

 accumulate facts for the formation of systems,-— 



