230 Belmont County. 



Captina is another excellent mill stream, which after running 

 about 17 or 18 miles in this county, puts into the Ohio 23 

 miles by water below Wheeling. These streams visit and 

 fertilize a considerable part of Belmont. 



From the view we have taken of this county, its geology, 

 mineralogy, and botany, the reader will probably be prepared 

 with us to conclude, that no part of the union, of equal extent, 

 contains within it greater natural resources, or can support a 

 more dense population. 



The seat of justice is St. Clairsville, situated ten miles from 

 the Ohio river, at Wheeling. It contains three houses for 

 public worship, 15 stores, a printing-office, a bank, and 700 

 inhabitants. 



Many of the inhabitants of this county are Quakers or 

 Friends, who are charitable, humane, frugal, enterprising, in- 

 dustrious, and strongly opposed to slavery. From such a po- 

 pulation, possessing such advantages, what may we not hope 

 and expect from their exertions ? Their fertile valleys will 

 be turned into meadows, and their hills into pastures ; the ox 

 will fatten in the former, whilst the flocks of Andalusia will 

 whiten the latter. 



Art. IV. Remarks on the Structure of the Calton Hill, 

 near Edinburgh, Scotland^ and on the Aqueous origin of 

 Wacke ; hy J. W. Webster, M.D. of Boston. 



X HE country around Edinburgh is extremely interesting to 

 the geologist, and presents numerous instances of the junction 

 of rocks to which the advocates of the Neptunian system have 

 referred in support of their opinion as to the aqueous origin 

 of greenstone, basalt, and wacke ; while the same examples 

 have been cited by the Volcanists, and by those who hold an 

 intermediate opinion. The structure of a portion of Calton 



