Miscellaneous Notices of Mountain Scenery, ^c. 217 



In treating of the geology of this province, we have great- 

 ly exceeded the limits at first proposed, and have not only 

 described the facts as they exist in nature, but have also pointed 

 out the rationale of all the remarkable phenomena, as far as 

 our knowledge extended, or our limits would permit. The- 

 ories which are generally known, and adopted, we have 

 merely alluded to en passant ; but where appearances justi- 

 fied it, we have advanced opinions, some of which are, per- 

 haps, novel, although they were legitimate inferences from the 

 facts discovered in our investigations, which were carefully 

 made, and the results recorded on the spot where they were 

 observed. Historical and geographical remarks, have been 

 in a great measure excluded, being foreign to our purpose, 

 excepting, when required to designate the localities and as- 

 sist the traveller in finding those which were the subjects of 

 our examination, and which furnished the facts constituting 

 the basis of this memoir. 



We are happy to learn that Thomas C. Haliburton, Esq, 

 of Annapolis, a gentleman to whose politeness we are much 

 indebted, has in the press an Historical and Statistical Descrip- 

 tion of Nova Scotia, from its earliest settlement to the pres- 

 ent day. From the well known talents of this gentleman, 

 whom, we believe to be the author of an instructive work, 

 entitled " A General Description of Nova Scotia," publish- 

 ed at Halifax in 1 823, we anticipate in the forthcoming vol- 

 ume, a valuable, and highly interesting work which will do 

 justice to this province, the history and productions of which 

 are but little known abroad, or have generally been misrep- 

 resented. The frequent revolutions and change of masters 

 that Nova Scotia has undergone, and the scenes of carnage 

 which it has witnessed from christian, as well as savage 

 warfare, furnish appropriate subjects to the muse and the 

 novelist, as well as a fruitful field to the legitimate historian. 



Art. n. — Miscellaneous Notices of Mountain Scenery, and 

 of Slides and Avalanches in the White and Green Moun- 

 tains; from a letter of the Editor — of the late Rev. Car- 

 los Wilcox, and of Mr. Theron Baldwin. 



The mountain scenery of this country, and the geological 

 and other events connected with it, have as yet received 

 little attention. 



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