V, Some Remarks upon the Structure of Barbadoes, as connected 

 with Specimens of its Rocks. 



By Joseph Srey, M.D. Physician to the Forces. 



Read June 19th, 1812. 



J.T is not my intention to offer to the Society a mineralogical 

 description of those West Indian islands from which I have 

 brought specimens ; for, independently of the peculiar difficulties 

 attending close and accurate researches of this nature in such a 

 climate, my knowledge of the subject is too limited, and I am too 

 little conversant with such descriptions to venture upon any but 

 what the specimens themselves would seem to call for, in order 

 to explain the circumstances under which they were collected. As 

 however my friend Mr. Aikin has requested me to copy the few 

 and imperfect notes which I have taken upon the subject, I beg 

 leave to present them to the Society, together with the specimens, 

 trusting that they will be considered as little else than their accom- 

 panying catalogue. 



I would beg permission to state that Barbadoes, which furnished 

 the specimens under notice, is an island totally unlike those im- 

 mediately near it, both in appearance and in structure, as will be 

 evident, when I lay before the Society specimens of the rocks of 

 St. Vincent and St. Lucie in my possession. 



