162 Miscellanies. 
MISCELLANIES. 
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 
1. Museum of Grveon Manrett, Esq. of Lewes, in Sussex, Eng- 
land.—We have for some time intended to publish a notice of this 
museum, which, in the sciences to which it relates, is one of the most 
remarkable and instructive in the world, especially when it is consid- 
ered that it is the result of individual effort. We are happy to man- 
ifest, in this manner, our respect for the character of the distinguished 
and excellent proprietor, and to exhibit this museum, as a model wor- 
thy of imitation in this country, especially in the vast secondary, ter- 
tiary and diluvial region of our middle and southern Atlantic coast. 
We shall adopt Mr. Mantell’s own account in his published cata- 
logue of 1829, which is introduced by the following eloquent and 
beautiful | e from Sir H. Davy. 
“If we bok with wonder upon the great remains of hunt works, 
such as the columns of Palmyra, broken in the midst of the desert; 
the temples of Pzstum, beautiful in the decay of twenty centuries; 
or the mutilated fragments of Greek sculpture in the Acropolis of 
Athens, or in our own museums, as proofs of the genius of artists, and 
power and riches of nations now past away; with how much deeper’ 
feeling of admiration must we consider those grand monuments of na- 
ture which mark the revolutions of the globe ; continents broken into 
islands ; one land produced, another destroyed ; the bottom of the 
ocean become a fertile soil ; whole races of animals extinct, and the 
bones and exuvie of one elas covered with the remains of another 5 
and upon the graves of past generations—the marble or rocky tomb, 
as it were, of a former animated world—new generations rising, and 
order and harmony established, and a system of life and beauty pr 
duced out of chaos and death ; proving the infinite power, wisdom, 
and goodness of the Great Cruse of all things !” 
Sussex, and the adjacent parts of Hampshire, Surrey, and Kent, 
are composed of beds of gravel, chalk, clay, limestone, sand, and 
sandstone, lying upon one another in a certain order, and having @ 
al ‘towards the south-east in Sussex, and north-east 
in Surrey and Kent. In these beds are found, more or less abund- 
antly, the remains of animals and vegetables ; but the organic bodies 
discovered in some of the strata, are not to be met with in others; 
for instance, in certain beds the fossils are entirely of terrestrial oF 
