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slightly to the tongue, and has no degree of translucency ou 

 its edges. As Mr. Kain has furnished you with an interesting 

 detail of particular minerals found in East Tennessee and 

 Western Virginia, I need not recapitulate what he has so well 

 said. 



(To be conii7iued.) 



Art. III. J^otice of the Scenery, Geology, Mineralogy^ 

 Botany, ^c. of Belmont County, Ohio, by Caleb At- 

 WATER, Esq. of Circleville. 



Belmont county is bounded on the north by Jeffer- 

 son and Harrison, on the west by Guernsey, and south by 

 Monroe county, and on the east by the Ohio river. It is 

 27 miles in length, and 21 in breadth, containing 635 square 

 miles. Its name, Belmont, or beautiful mountain, -indicates its 

 situation, for it contains within its boundaries a fine body of 

 land, rising gradually as you are travelling from the Ohio to 

 the west, until you arrive at about the middle of it, where, 

 from the elevation on which you stand, the eye in an eastern 

 direction, beholds one of the most charming prospects in the 

 state. Looking towards the east, in a pleasant morning, you 

 behold a beautiful country of hill and dale spread out before 

 you, divided into convenient and well-cultivated farms, inter- 

 sected by glittering streams, meandering through them to- 

 wards the Ohio. You hear the lowing of numerous herds 

 around you, the shrill matin of the songsters of the forest, and 

 the busy hum of the industrious husbandman ; you see here 

 and there a clump of trees interspersed among the culti- 

 vated parts of the country •, you see the comfortable dwelling- 

 house, the substantial barn, and hear the rumbling noise of the 

 mill ; and when you reflect that those who dwell here are in- 

 dustrious and enterprising, virtuous, free, and happy, you 

 behold with pleasure, and listen with delight, while reflecting 

 on the objects around you. 



