2-72 Geological Poemi. 



13. Hornblende Slate, Brattleborough, Vt. It occurs 



also at Newfane. 



14. Bitter spar, Marlborough. 



15. Magnetic Oxide of iron. 



16. Dolomite, Jamaica, Vt. in this the magnetic Oxide 



of Iron occurs. 



17. Steatite, Marlborough. 



18. Siliceous Limestone, Putney, imbedded in argil- 



lite — also at Brattleborough, Vt. 



19. Green Fluor Spar, Putney, Vt. this is nearly ex- 



hausted. 



20. Mica Slate, Jamaica, Vt. 

 21 Serpentine, Putney, Vt. < 



29. Green foliated Talc, Windham, Vt. — fine. 

 23 Roofing Slate, Brattleborough, Vt. 

 24. Schorl, Hinsdale, N. H. 



Art. XI. — Geological Poems. 



There are few departments of nature which have not 

 been tributary to poetry, as affording either subjects of 

 verse, or figures and images by which it is illustrated and 

 adorned. — Agriculture furnished to the Mantuan bard the 

 rich theme of his Georgics. — Doct. Darwin in our own 

 times has found among plants a fruitful topic of allegorical 

 love. — Some of his satirists have written upon the loves of 

 the Triangles, and the world has been furnished even with 

 piscatory Eclogues. — We believe however that rocks and 

 minerals, and the generalizations and theories of Geology 

 have rarely, if ever, offered any temptations to the muses — 

 for who would think that topics generally regarded as so 

 dry and repulsive, are capable of being clothed in a form 

 susceptible at once of poetical embellishment, and of didac- 

 tic instruction. — These remarks have been caused by the 

 perusal of some poems written at Oxford, and published in 

 London in 1820, which are certainly curiosities both in 

 literature and science — as they are almost entirely unknown 

 in this country, and are at once specimens of skilful poetry, 

 and of a lucid exhibition of geological facts and doctrines — 

 we have thought that the republication of some of them 

 would not be inconsistent with the gravity of this work, and 



