116 = Reviews— Baker’s ‘ Maxims ;’ Kelly’s * Errors.’ 
to the surface at weak points, and through fractured portions of 
Strata. We believe also it would not be difficult to find examples 
where mineral, and even thermal springs, though conducted up to 
the surface through fissures, do not rise from any great depth, and 
certainly not from beneath Silurian rock. 
The volume of mineral waters poured forth is extremely large. 
A million of litres (200,000 gallons) a day is no unusual quantity 
for a single spring. A group of springs in Arkansas, North 
America, yield more than a thousand litres a minute (23 million 
gallons a day). Of 500 springs rising in the central plateau of 
France, 231, that have been gauged, yield 12,064 cubic métres 
(2,628,000 gallons) every 24 hours. The remaining 269, though 
smaller, are estimated to add nearly one-fourth (2,810 cubic métres) 
to the sum, making a total of nearly 3} millions of gallons a day. 
This is believed to be much below the real total—( To be continued.) 
—D. T. A. 
REVIEWS. 
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Harmonic Maxims or Science anp Reticion. By the Rev. W. 
Baker, M.A., Vicar of Crambe, near York. 8vo. 1864. Lone- 
MAN & Co. London. 
Nores upon tHe Errors or Grotocy. ILLustRATED BY Facts 
OBSERVED IN IRELAND. By Joun Kutiy, V.P. Roy. Geol. Soe. 
of Ireland. 8vo. 1864. Loneman & Co. London. 
vate Bible harmonized with Science is not a theme one likes the 
look of at first sight ; we seem to have had enough of it, and 
more than enough. Not that there is any real reason why the har- 
monies of the two divine works, ‘the Earth and the Word,’ should 
not be studied and admired, but because there are so few—so very 
few—who can bring the requisite learning to the work. It is not 
the easy task some think it. That it is an impossible one we 
strongly doubt; and nothing will so effectually retard it as the ill- 
considered efforts of good men who are dunces in science,—no, not 
even the rash denunciations of those who know something of the 
Earth and but little of the Book. ‘We do not know,’ says the 
Bishop of London in his late grand address at Edinburgh, ‘ how 
much of our knowledge is purely human and naturally acquired, how 
much has come down from a supernatural or divine source, even 
when transmitted by those who professed most vehemently to dis- 
eard any supernatural help.’ We may rest assured in the convic- 
tion that no two truths are, or can be opposite; and we may welcome 
any additions to our real knowledge, while we shut our eyes as 
much as possible to the clumsy workmanship that tries to fit them 
together. And haying said thus much on the general subject, let us 
look at the two books before us—so utterly unlike each other. Let 
Mr. Baker speak first. 
The learned author starts with the proposition, that ‘certain 
