Salt Springs of Moutiers. 227 



the great eboulements, caused by clearing away the wood from the 

 sides of the mountains, obliged the government to abandon the mines, 

 and undertake the manufacture of salt at the Salines. These mines 

 are mentioned by the Roman historians. 



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The volumes from which the foregoing extract is taken, deserve a 

 full notice in a Journal of Science. They contain many facts and 

 views that are interestiug to science, particularly to geology, in which 

 the author has shewn himself a skillful and independent observer. 

 But the work is not to be regarded merely as a book of scienti6c trav- 

 els ; it is also popular, and interesting to all readers who value sound 

 information on a great variety of the subjects which are among the 

 most interesting to man. The vigor of mind, the candor and recti- 

 tude of judgment, and the power of exciting interest and conveying 

 instruction, which the author, in still earlier years, discovered in his ge- 

 ology, are very apparent in his travels. Society, in domestic life as 

 well as among the learned ; the arts, useful and ornamental ; histori- 

 cal facts, especially as connected with particular places and scenes ; 

 the face of nature both in grandeur and wildness, and in the loveliness 

 of cultivation; these and many other subjects give diversity to the 

 author's pages, and furnish entertainment and instruction for readers 

 of various mental acquirements and taste. 



Geology is a prominent subject, but in general, the topics of this 

 nature are so arranged that they may be omitted by those readers to 

 whom they are not interesting. To all who cultivate this branch of 

 knowledge, they will however prove highly acceptable. 



We liave rarely met with a book of travels containing no perilous 

 adventures, in which there is more that is at once interesting and val- 

 uable ; it is a solid, manly, and useful production, and the animated 

 style and discriminating- observations of the author, prevent the book 

 from becoming heavy. It seems however, not to be much known even 

 in England, and not at all in the United States. If any thing which 

 we can suggest should contribute to bring it more before the scien- 

 tific and literary public of both countries, we should be gratified, es- 

 pecially, as the work is remarkably free from prejudices, and pecu- 

 liarly from those which English critics often point out in their coun- 

 trymen. It contains some fine colored engravings and numerous 

 woods cuts from original drawings. 



