THE 



AMERICAN 

 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 



Art. I. — Citations from, and abstract of, the Geological Reports 

 on the State of New York, for 1837-8, being State Document 

 No. 200; commimicated by Gov. W. L. Marcy, to the Assem- 

 bly at Albany, Feb. 20, 1838. 



* 

 We have already mentioned the former Report, Vol. xxxii, p. 



186. The present contains three hundred and eighty four pages, 

 and is illustrated both by wood cuts and by a quarto atlas of litho- 

 graphic drawings, maps and sections fifteen, in number. 



The communication contains — 



1. A letter from James E. De Kay ; 2. the report of Lewis C. 

 Beck; 3. of T. A. Conrad ; 4. of W. W. Mather ; 5. of E.Em- 

 mons ; 6. of L. Vanuxem ; and 7. of James Hall. 



The document now before us, being a full octavo volume, 

 hardly admits of condensation. The facts are very numerous, 

 and many of them of great importance. From the mass, we can 

 do little more than to select a few of the most prominent. 



1. The letter of Dr. De Kay refers to a verbal report made to 

 a joint committee of the senate and assembly, and to an ultimate 

 report to be presented when the labors of the botanical and zo- 

 ological departments shall be closed — ably and happily, as we 

 cannot doubt, from the well known character of the gentlemen 

 charged with the care of those departments. 



2. The report of Dr. Lewis C. Beck, on the mineralogical and 

 chemical department of the survey. 



In Orange county, near the village of Monroe, is magnetic iron 

 ore, at the Wilks or Clove mine, and at O'Neil mine, ii\ the vi- 



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