198 Miscellanies. 



coal in two principal districts of Pennsylvania, by the Editor of 

 this Journal, and the Rev, George Jones. Our hmits, also, warn 

 us to be brief, and we may expect a better consummation from 

 the gentlemen themselves, when their labor is accomplished. 



We have also another reason for brevity in the case of the Ohio 

 report ; for just as this number of the Journal is about closing, we 

 have received an analysis and review of that report — too long and 

 too late for the present number, but which Avill appear in our next. 



If we have any thing to add to the review, we shall not there- 

 fore anticipate it now. In concluding, we have only to say, that 

 both Pennsylvania and Ohio, are states whose territories are stored 

 in abundance with the principal substances most necessary to 

 man ; coal in its most important varieties, salt, limestone, iron 

 ore and many other things. Ohio, is eminently a vast region 

 of organic remains, and even its human antiquities, arrest the at- 

 tention of the geologist as well as of the antiquary. Both States 

 are in the course of survey by very able men, but we are extreme- 

 ly sorry to see that Dr. Hildreth, who worked early and almost 

 alone — who worked hard, and who worked well, has withdrawn 

 from the survey, and we are still more sorry to observe that ill 

 health is the cause ; for his comitry's sake and his own, may he 

 soon be well again ! 



Dr. Locke, by reason of absence in Europe, did not perform the 

 duty assigned to him. 



By a letter from Columbus, we regret to learn, that the survey 

 is just suspended, and party grounds are assigned as the cause ! 

 On such a subject, there should be but one party. The noble 

 State of Ohio, must and will vindicate her honor and her interest 

 by resuming and finishing this great work, so ably begun and car- 

 ried forward with so much spirit and success ! 



3. Fossil Fishes. — It is very generally known at the present day, that 

 fossil fishes abound in the sandstone formation of the Connecticut river 

 valley. As the study of these fossils, in connection with the rocks in 

 which they are imbedded, has become a science of daily increasing inter- 

 est and importance, it seems desirable that every one should contribute 

 what local and practical information he may possess, in aid of this impor- 

 tant object. 



Prof Hitchcock has particularly described localities in several towns of 

 Massachusetts; but, so far as I know, he has only occasionally alluded in 

 general terms to the occurrence of ichthyolites at Middletown, Ct. One 



