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g!e of eighteen or twenty degrees, from the top of which we 

 have a view of the central part of the Narragansett, with sev- 

 eral of its beautiful islands. East, a plain presents itself, 

 intersected by a ravine, overgrown with shrubs, along which 

 flows a small stream of water from the swamp. North, the 

 land rises gently, and for some extent is completely cover- 

 ed with huge, misshapen rocks, lying wholly above the 

 surface ; gray with moss, and exhibiting ten thousand frac- 

 tures. 



Very Respectfully yours, 



STEUBEN TAYLOR. 



Preceptor of the Charlesfield Street Academy. 



Art. II. — Review op'' Outlines of the Geology of England and 

 Wales ; with an Introductory Compendium of the General 

 Principles of that Science: And Comparative vieivs of the 

 Structure of Foreign Countries. By Rev. W. D Co- 

 NYBEARE, F. R. S. M. G. S. &IC, and William Phillips, 

 F. L. S. M. G. S. &c. Parti: pp. 470. London, 

 1822." 



(Communicated for this Journal.) 



Perhaps to no science, can the poet's description of 

 Fame be so properly applied, as to geology : 



Mobilitate viget viresque acquirit eundo. 



It is not much above thirty years since systematic and ef- 

 fective efforts were made in this science, by men of ener- 

 getic minds and persevering research. Previously to that 

 lime, indeed, facts were accumulating, and some efforts 

 worthy of praise, were made, to find out a clue to their ar- 

 rangement. The names of several Arabian writers, upon 

 the mineralogical department of geology, as early as the 

 tenth century ; of some Italians in the sixteenth century, 

 upon fossil shells, among whom Boccacio was eminent ; af 

 Lehman the German; of Palissey, Rouelle and Guettard, 

 in France ; and of Owen, Woodward, Llwydd, Lister, 

 Mitchell, Holloway, Packe, Strachey, and others, in Eng- 

 land, will always be remembered with respect in the histo-^ 

 ry of this science. Still however, until the time of Hutton 



