CONTENTS. , V 



II. Foreign. 



Page. 



1. Recent discovery of Fossil Bones in the eastern part 



of France, by Prof. Buckland, - - 203 



2, 3. Analysis of the massive Cinnamon Stone — Mines of 



Gold and Platina in the Ural Mountains, - 204 

 4, 5. Sapphire in the Emery of Naxos — A new combusti- 

 ble gas, - 205 

 6. Voyage to the Eastern Seas — in 1816, &c. by Captain 



Basil Hall, R. N. F. R. S., - - 206 



NUMBER II. 



Art. I. Notice of the Tockoa and Tallulah Falls in Georgia ; 



by A. Foster, - 209 



II. Miscellaneous Notices of Mineral Localities, with Ge- 

 ological Remarks ; by Prof. Edward Hitchcock, 2 1 5 



III. Notices of Prof. Olmsted's Report on the Geology of 



North Carolina, - - - 230 



IV. Prof. Beck on the Chlorides of Soda, Lime, &c, 251 

 V. Notice of a peculiarity in Vision ; by Chauncey E. 



Goodrich, - 264 



VI. Observations on Surveying Instruments, and the means 



of remedying their imperfections ; by Lucius Lyon, 

 Surveyor and Civil Engineer — (with a print,) 268 



VII. Dr. S. P. Hildreth on the Shells, found in the waters 



of the Muskingum River, Little Muskingum and 

 Duck Creek, near Marietta, Ohio, (with figures,) 276 

 VIII. On the Boulders of Primitive Rocks found in Ohio, 

 and other western states and territories ; by Ben- 

 jamin Tappan, - - - 291 



IX. On the Principles of Motion, and their use in the high- 



er branches of Mathematics, - - 297 



X. On moving Stones, in Lakes, Ponds, &c. ; by Nathan- 



iel Chipman, - 303 



XL A Description of the Mineralogy and Geology of a 

 part of Nova Scotia ; by Charles T. Jackson and 

 Francis Alger, (with a map, &c.) - - 305 



XII. A Theory of Fluxions ; by Elizer Wright, (with fig- 

 ures,) - 330 



XIII. Caricography ; by Prof. Dewey, (with figures,) 351 



XIV. Some new modifications of apparatus ; by Prof. Ro- 



bert Hare, M. D., - - - - 354 



XV. General Geological Strata; by Prof. Amos Eaton, 359 



