CONTENTS. 



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 Art. I. On the Muriate of Soda, and the Salt Springs in the 

 United States ; by George W. Carpenter, of Phil- 

 adelphia, - - - - 1 

 II. Notice of the Salt Springs and Manufacture of Salt 

 at Salina, Syracuse, &c. N. Y. ; by Stephen Smith, 

 Superintendent at Salina, - - 6 



III. Hypothesis on Volcanos and Earthquakes ; by Jo- 



seph Du CoMMUN, of the Military Academy at 

 West-Point, - - - - 12 



IV. Descriptive Arrangement of Volcanic Rocks; by 



G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., M. G. S. ; from the 

 London Quarterly Journal of Science, &c. for 

 July, 1826, - - . - 28 



V. The Report of J. L. Tiarks, Astronomer, &c. on his 

 Observations for ascertaining the most north- 

 western point of the Lake of the Woods, 41 



VI. On the Vitality of Matter, - - - 54 



VII. On the Zodiacal Light ; by David Leslie, - 62 



VIII. Remarks upon Bleaching, - - - 64 



IX. Biographical Notice of Alexander Volta, - 67 



X. Double Stars, and the Order of the Starry Firma- 

 ment, - - - - - 76 



XI. Account of the Tracks of Foot-Marks of Animals 

 found impressed in Sandstone in the Quarry of 

 Corncockle Muir, Dumfries-shire ; by the Rev. 

 Henry Duncan, D. D. Minister at Ruthwell. From 

 Dr. Brewster's Journal, - _ _ §4 



XII. Observations concerning Fossil Organic Remains; 

 by J. E. DooRNiK, M D. &c. Communicated for 

 this Journal, by the author, in French MS. and 

 translated by Charles U. Shepard. — Rem u'kp up- 

 on M. Cuvier's Method ofexplaming the import- 

 ance of Organic Remains in Geology, - 90 

 XIII. Analysis of an " Essai sur la temperature de i'inte- 

 rieur de la Terre, par M. Cordier;" With obser- 

 vations ; by Thomas Cooper, M. D. &c,, President 

 of the College of South Carolina, - 109 



