cs 23, 1858. | THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
55 
iz., the loss of the ship, and suc rial as effec-] on foot for the moun ntains of buildin materials with tion ; some li niy oscillating the horrid rocki 
ap g istlessly oscillating in the horrid rocking 
sally sto the "expedition. This happen ned Ose f ‘ictween whieh they are encumbered. EEA some nervously passing z from the mirrors to the 
tabba and — in lat. 9.80, where aa river become: th Sagar j tà d b diih t p 
below mountain ranges. The channel here is p e è rather e midst o e ust, wi es ia windows, anxious, perhaps, that 
roken by hoge rocke,. some Tiain, ng alu ber perpendicular from | of the "fo est yet sea ooted out, I beheld a,|sight which has gratified themselves so re whilst 
00 to 500 feet, Ngo ae pre ge ones akion extremely 4 r pen erna city of palaces. On pra aie: jaib where you will |the lobbies, and the bar, and the tobacco room are 
miona cog here. ancho nenas sae T ON pni Aa you are fronted with lofty imposing groups of | crowded with their husbands and brot hën —aye, and 
owed a great’ depth of wate rd narrow channels. On | buildings in th course of erection, as if some modern | their lovers too, perhaps, who dare not spit before the 
ttempting one of these the ship beca unmanageable Aladdin had brought ` ¥ enice from its ocean home, an ies. i unted R ose anas in an hotelin oe 
n the eddies, and not having nmas rapi on to. mak 25 gentler in the lob the pavement of which 
’ against the stream,- was t thr ce on a le dge of roc! ae “Her ii l PEPA fail t by, pa » 
omer water, crashed in her botto News n immediately enterprise nas + se ope for swing. | they bid ALE pE ed ier and unsafe to the. feet. 
o fill. Efforts were made to get off, dows only inguinal the Situated at the extremity of Lake ~~ Sn eie So t nat thes and A merican hotels are nothing 
langer; the ship heeled over rapidly. We the anokwe beaiiy. | is the connecting link between a magnificen f | better I 
ybandoned sod ta ae is ae kane “UY | Jakes, whose united length exceeds rsa a o 
Mediterranean, on the 
g nf e 
one hand, and the vast:prairie- 
Another Introduction to Geology (small 8vo, Black» 
| 
he stern on | 
rock above water nee have recovered many things | field just bonang to yield to the plough on the other. | pp Jukes, under 
which now ait tw Aas AEN ba g oe unpleasant. | Great. as lumber trade. of i mes ohn, Ne me of The Student’s Manual of Geology. Amore 
on i people. ‘Thess axo built-with. native mats formed H ardea that = does not export hal much as is acct man wer produce such a work could not bs 
of the split petiolo of Raphia vinifera laid on rafters of the This a Henn in Rets claims to be | found, and i itn e truly said that it is not beneai 
same entire with apri “indo a of — ia Pa rid. | Pens and the la timber market in the world, we "Being inaya for students and eer 
houses for sheep; gi », an os wah p e Š > 
the natives are ariere ade.; e fortified our camp with a probed a sami the nikon But it "boasts al of being | for mere readers, it was rtan — ; ho — 
f stones, and Į att the ip's guns on n rocks which the. Jar n port i in the world. Now.an ees elish. | should not only be good i in itee lf, but skilfully arrang i 
com pant ie whole, and « a approaches tei i -mhg nai ative ae hat a little town whic h, | and so we fin The manner in which this has 
continue O ring us ‘otatoes, A; ing 
Corn, Onions, Ground fi ats, ‘Sugar Canes, two kinds of Pulse, BEYAN: YOAtS ago, did eed Leith in size, h ser ed is dail in the following extracts from the 
beer brewed from the Doura corn suffici ent to supply all our outstripped his mighty pai ai À ìn the grain tradas author ose uction. 
wants. For this they receive such goods as are saved, viz., | Accordingly, I tried to compare the greene return “It noh jensy to give an accurate and comprehen- 
p pees s aA yi to nn wna. of my dried plants o of the port of Chicago for 1856 with thos i NE e science of Genap; ; for its nature 
i Si ucceeded in ing Ol. sS rem: 
everal days in water, and ar refore. of trifling: value, | for 184d, eal guar, i could lay my hands on us, that it is os nit, in a few 
Nevertheless I have redried in the sun all that are saved, to | Comparison, it certainly am, “appear that mports | words, uae o speci city its obje ee to assign its limits. 
kee com w is ble. Living, lants, pees, ý ang — into Chicago exceed thos to London suai and | It is, on not so much one sci is as the appli ication 
eck at the time were, for greater part, swept away by 
the current. We shallin all probability remain here two from fo ee by 280,000 aed But Is uspect of all t e phy sical cher st n ipee sn and 
months loi I e therefore time to collect the greater the word ‘port’ used in the one set of t By - stru of the e the investiga- 
of t tation of the adjacent country. The rainy iota different signification from the d t F the acy el in the production of that 
settee ea re iat ae a poe a ponr a the other. So we are probably ing | st his rot t their action.” 
nan iwing slightly. E oro ind Rei on citing Agia what reaches Lon rra on y water only, with what reaches s s Tei is not Fntended that pe me should infer from 
party ; but probably not more than is incident to expeditions | Chicago by land and by water. _How vever this may | rat: o be a geologist, he 
Bs t aips e ae era river ae Dait tom be, the enormous amount. of | “ th — circle of 
vernment party, Mr. Davis, the surgeon, an n, > i i 
iataralint, dinve been ibotlt ii) somè tien clitaate; nobanecing a T Her of grain peeing Chica ago at all one | the Err 5 “natural sciences, Such in to, and of 
with them. They will return home the first opportunity for | year, cannot fail to e ca F admitan at this. won- quirement f few me n have ` the e power to attain and of 
sending them down the river, Since being on = all tip derfa l little place. “An nd t railro ads. retain the ability and the ill to — 
ask. 
but myself and the captain hav 
Europeans my: e been ring fr 
fever, but are now recovering. I may consider mye Pea per 
emai for although nearly are and from 
tanical ra salen cone exposed to th e Saa pada malaria 
= en visiting home tie sie &e., yet I have enjogodil “bette ter health 
were they ma ade? The an st’ be, I “fea kon 
many of them, like- some. of English ere are 
boa 
q 
— can be a 
acquainted, to reg extent “with the 
any particular bran chi, No. 
aldo geologist without eliig 
neral results of 
4 
d be eing abl e boti h yA audace 
sie 
fee a 
monuments of the yi matey ET public. 
H 
I a their ialen to his own rehes. Such 
a general acquaintance involves neither profound alg, 
of. human intellect. 
Iei is, a neg what every well- edu- 
than when at home. undin, as a health ` 
appearance—low mow ein ith mage ce of Leer ¥ | subject I dare not. e nere orai R 
sandstone rock (in which I found. fossil xemaln of a ome where. the profits are imagina: early. so, 
jointed like Equisetum and very abundant, in one form | might be eloquent on te Settee 'Tepresentations of | 
only) ; i i me valleys near the river rape roe prevalent A 
AE waded De aianl merican projectors; but under existing 
life, No i fae baaaie ri pen T shall employ: my pn „better in beeing to describe the | 
like appearance to the pendana about | thing. y conclusions. 
species, amon ich I abun a You ait know. -that plain, 
p undulating 
“In order “to reduee th the great subject of geology t 
o 
Parki very a 
culentus, iid Farsorind, 
= 
gst w. 
we Inga biglumosa, Baroo ocephalus es 
nou ee whic! ch 
a large Legumi: 
Tt. Crowther, a native of Yo: 
dotted ith a patel erally | 
4 7 
we may use the terms— 
fi f rank weeds | cies ing pretty 
tha Re raba, 
ae sehen of Western Africa, telis me is ‘the tree from. which 
vont pobtained. It yields a gum r e not 
xthiopicus is plentiful, ‘put not in. the immediate 
vicinity. Thestem ofit isalways largest half-way from the base, 
TA ae 
flowe: 
but little toa fnar a grazier, " Imagine the whole | | 
be 
which 
ognosy ; 2, Pal tolo ogy ; and 3, The ioe ae th 
Poradi ot the. “Series of Stratified Rocks. 
of Scotland north of the Biris of ~ rth. to 
See OPEN ing only a and. prairie | 
w patch of f cleared land and, a few | 
= 
TERE 8 
resembling exactly the common rolling-pin used in rymak- 
miad The Oil Palm never takes this form, so far a my observa- 
tion extends. Calami, whic 'h abound: in the lower parts of the 
Scie 
is a yourself one of the 
ur brethren to use every 
the banks Pe. 
ately sa gen 
structure which either are or on be pa common to 
rocks, of all ages, an ERE ADAR E which regulai 
nall coals ‘ont the world’s hi 
tory, and leave ene give a ago sed statement of- 
the third part elisa apply 40 — 
ky th r own f 
Eaphorbia:. AET Asc è . 
ee Saee dry ay | ett tan ano te ae ie wider i Kaan lls AE 
are- common—none o: - 
ne i meee pebes cpe Tiiere obteitindsoverslnewr But it consists of land e N brought into « cultivation. | the texture, and other ¢ ters o uch k 
Bar ipn tan rms Gentians? one an annual 2 feet | Tt is near the Firth of Forth and the of Leith, | be determined in the by the aid of hand speci- - 
an aquatic with flower of the deepest blue. The latter where facilities for the development of tied are ample, | mens. Under Peale T I would arrange the larger — 
only in a Aran vag our an ee we I SEREY You quickly dispose of your lands, one-half to to bond fide characteristics of rocks, t the study of rock-masses, mes Oe ; 
is as phæa, w oqeenicniey the other to rs like. your ; 
a ror owania "of Maraniy with purple aroraa Teas plone selves, who have an inkli your tactics, and confi-| relations, and other characters that can only 4 studied 
z les Thalia d | psig in hee skill. _ You then hasten to purchase silver | in ‘the field,’ ee greg entering on the paun, of 
| trum whole ess, duly supplied the. geological t of their production. the — 
wi ese, ow such a blast: tha e takes up the} head of Palæon ogy I propos 
Notices of ook ith th bl ch blast: that, fam erage Ey ni r head Eie oly I oe ye be Bre 
a scheme whereby railways becom: governed the distribution a af life boi both in in ri ore 
e self: oonshmotise: 
» as also to indicate some of the chief points in the 
fat 
es 
is an e setae to those now living. 
to North A America, = ‘cannot bat. peo anions as that you who set the ogen: oing, ha y point out the practical aga: this subject, 
rest content with certain | scientific and e ical. Having thus deseri 
me it seems that it formed two lectures ii cs to an little patches of land around the stations. _ True; there as ds facts and generalisations common to 
is no spaa esye t vhole subject, ructures and mena which 
port a colony along ii ts line. It is the } precursor of the may recur during every geologi I shall, under- 
Inhabitants for for whose ultimate use it has been con- | the head of ‘History of the Formation of t Crust of 
all also mera ona to 
So the railway advances 
u smile at m ea I assure you it is 
“Do 
the 
the = > give a condensed abstract of that waar 
| the form of a chronological € classification, 
Chicago, rk and is, I believ: 
d and Philadelphia. What he saw, h id in these | every feature. In this way “sy prairie has been covered | to have been produced, and a few of the fossils 
gk is told i a- a mixture = £9 and se riousness: which with a net-work of railwa, s most desirable for the | to have lived at different parts of the earth pn 
em re e offers of the known great periods of its existence. 
te, Secondly of the a u pete T ae upon} Let us add that the > work is illustrated d by good: s 
eaen one Bry: Em energy, ond ne KeA | which our Professor thus i 
Tender: him bind to t their glaring faults of pufiing, hum- | American emis however far sob many a errors, e vory Aaa 
: «This is t ection of t ments, tly ple of pag 
dirstly of Chicago and humbug, but to an unaceustomed traveller, male or fema’e, it is all : 
eon ever heard of you | c and disfigured by the vile habit of spitting.| ZLawsows 
their is now what Rochester and Buffal the presence of the ladies is some check on| stand pre for. i 
err. <a ie cya of western. ang ira In T this filthy practice; what it I dare at mopa : it convey 
PRT aed one shop, a : conjecture; what it is; amply- to mar the} i with a coloured vie 
e remains: of the Black Hawk who ‘eee of life in Ga Tonite thet every | at Dalkeith Palace, Published at 1, George IV. Bridge, 
then suffered the fate which is now impending | turn. Marble pavements and ‘Turkey carpets 27, Great 
eighbours. in. Iowa.. that: time. the | constantly and ii itting i We give a few specimens — : 
which the city now stands: mi eg monster vice of the ; to slavery it isthe] “ rod of brickwork requires 27 bushels 
are told, fo reg 0072. this | great obstacle in the way of perfect: civili of e algae 5 tees roe road drift or sand, or 
am by a Scotch pane tba ma you ask me how ? a ha it promotes and | 18 bushels of stone lime, and 3} loads of sand. Half a 
pge in the best: localities sells for 2507. ial between the sexes, If| hundred of lime, with a proportionate quantity of sand, 
Here speculation. is . s a i, Oe lores drawing rooms of an hotel, you will | will m of mortar. Cement.—One - 
of Chi J lodie Sail Peje pinara and weighs 5 cwt, One r 
