Plants, characteristic of Different Nations. 351 



changed into European towns, with hotels, caffees, billiard 

 rooms, reading cabinets, and horse races. 



The incalculable advantages derived from the increasing 

 intercourse of nations, and by these means the accelerated 

 march of civilization, not only with regard to bodily well-be- 

 ing, but also with regard to intellectual life, ought in them- 

 selves to be sufficient to chase every complaint of increasing 

 uniformity. Nay, what is more, it might with reason be 

 asserted, that civilization far from producing uniformity be- 

 tween nations, on the very contrary sets the national pecu- 

 liarities off in stronger colours. 



It ought indeed not to be overlooked, that by culture many 

 dormant intellectual powers, many new relations, are called 

 into existence ; but the thus awakened intellectual faculties 

 are not all developed in the same manner, the new relations 

 are not the same everywhere, and thus withal, in spite of the 

 uniformity, which to a certain extent undoubtedly is pro- 

 duced, a number of new discrepancies appear, which by far 

 exceed the original ones. Who, for instance, shall dare to 

 doubt, but that a greater difference exists between the 

 English and the French nation, than between the Negroes 

 of Guinea and Mozambique, or between the different savage 

 tribes in the interior of the Brazils ? 



On the Method to be adopted in conducting Mineralogical 

 Surveys. By William Jameson, Esq. Bengal Medical 

 Service.* 



Of all the departments of Natural History, there is pro- 

 bably not one which has made more rapid advancement 

 within these few years than that of geology; vast tracts 

 of country have been examined, and numerous observations 

 made in all the great continents, which tend to shew, that 

 there exists, as was first clearly pointed out by Werner, 



* Revised and enlarged from the " India Review." 



