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or caricaturing the animal, [ became immediately satisfied 
that he had no pretensions to be considered an undescribed 
or a distinct species. For in most other respects, he seems 
to agree with the Hamster of Georgia, called by some the 
Gopper, which was described by me in 1804, and publish- 
ed that year, with a figure, by A. Anderson, in the New- 
York edition of Bewick’s General History of Quadrupeds, 
(p. 525.) For President Meigs’s and Governor Milledge’s 
exertions to investigate the history of this shy and trouble- 
some little animal, you may consult the 5th volume of the 
Medical Repository, p. 89. 
The chief use of his bags or pouches is to carry earth and 
sand. He is agreat digger and travels much under ground. 
To enable him to make his excavations more completely, he 
fills his bags with earth, and brings it up. He empties them 
by pressing out their contents with his fore paws. It does 
not appear that they are the receptacles of food ; for they 
have no connexion whatever with the mouth. Let me en- 
treat you to explain this matter as soon as you can, to your 
correspondents, that this travestied rat may no more appear 
m the books of zoology ; and let me at the same time soli- 
eit the continuance of your good will. 
_ SAMUEL IL. MITCHILL. 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
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I. Domestic 
1. Opinion of Professor Buckland of the University of 
Oxford, respecting certain features of American Geology. 
Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated Shrivenham, near 
Farringdon, Berks, (Eng.) June 4, 1821. 
SIR, : 
I having lately received, from my friend, the Rev. Pro- 
fessor Buckland, the annexed interesting detail respecting 
the Geological Analogy recently discovered to exist between 
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