272 XEW HARMONY. [CHAP. XXXV. 



and bis friend. Mr. Bolton, to see the (e carboni 

 ferous rocks,&quot; of which this region is constituted, and 

 the shelly loam, like that of Natchez, which has 

 evidently once filled up to a considerable height the 

 valley of the Wabash, and through which the running 

 waters have re-excavated the present valley. 



There is no church or place of public worship in 

 Xew Harmony, a peculiarity which we never re 

 marked in any town of half the size in the course of 

 our tour in the United States. Being here on week 

 days only, I had no opportunity of observing whether 

 on Sundays there are any meetings for social wor 

 ship. I heard that when the people of Evansville 

 once reproached the citizens of this place for having 

 no churches, they observed that they had also no 

 shops for the sale of spirituous liquors, which is still 

 a characteristic of Xew Harmony ; whereas Evans 

 ville, like most of the neighbouring towns of Indiana, 

 abounds in such incentives to intemperance. 



April 3. Left Xew Harmony for Evansville, on 

 the Ohio, Mr. Maclure having kindlv lent us his 

 carriage and horses. ~\Ve were accompanied by Dr. 

 Dale Owen and Mr. Bolton. On the way, we visited 

 Ivimball s mill, in the township of Robinson, in Poser 

 county, fourteen miles north-west of Evansville, where 

 a fine example is seen of upright fossil trees belong 

 ing to a species of Sigillaria. These are imbedded 

 in strata of argillaceous shale, or hardened mud, which 

 constitute the upper part of the great Illinois coal 

 field, and above them lies a horizontal layer of sand 

 stone, while a seam of coal, eighteen inches thick, is 

 observed about eighteen feet below the roots. Having 

 borrowed spades from the neighbouring mill, we dug 



