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Mr. Doughty (D) appears to have made a large collection of ice- 

 wrought and water-worn pebbles and ferruginous nodules from the glacial 

 drift, and to hare found in their varied and curious forms suggestions of 

 elaborate art. The ferruginous nod ales are his most precious relics, 

 abounding as they do in the fantastic forms of clay cemented by iron 

 oxides. "To geologists these tablets are known as a variety of clay 

 stones" (page 13); but to Mr. Doughty they are engraved tablets 

 rich in records of the past. " They bear upon their flattened surfaces 

 figures of human and animal forms, sometimes singly represented, but 

 more frequently in groups," of which one "represents a man with 

 Cacausia:i features sitting in the presence of several highly-colored in- 

 dividuals, who approach him with bowed heads. In each instance, 

 either the seated figure holds a staff bearing the head of a serpent, or the 

 staff is held before or behind him by another. The seated figure almost 

 always wears an elaborate feathered crown resembling that worn by the 

 Palenque figures" (page 10). "Having no desire to theorize," Mr. 

 Doughty merely suggests that the scene represents "the ruler of the 



deposits extending over an area which could only be examined in detail 

 by years of labor, that months of investigation may not reveal a single 

 inaccuracy or disclose a single unlooked for phenomenon." 



Mr. McGee has done with this notion as a former candidate for 

 State Treasurer said he did with his early poverty — he has held his own 

 remarkably well. 



There are those, who, in the study of nature, believe in observation 

 rather than imagination. 



Indeed, is it better to teach nature or to be taught by it? What would 

 Agassiz, the founder of glacial geology, have thought of the stool system? 



His experience, by his neighbor and friend, Longfellow, reads : 



" And Nature, the old nurse, took "And he wandered away and away, 

 The child upon her knee, With Nature, the dear old nurse, 



Saying, ' Sere is a story book Who sang to him night and day 

 Thy Father has written for thee.' The rhymes of the universe. 



" ' Come, wander with me,' she said, "And whenever the way seemed long, 

 ' Into regions yet untrod, Or his heart began to fail, 



And read what is still unread She would sing a more wonderful song, 

 In the manuscripts of God.' Or tell a more marvellous tale." 



(Note D) No notes are made as to the pamphlet of Mr. Doughty, though 

 there is no apparent reason why he should be so dishonored by personal 

 abuse. His pamphlet has nothing in common with the book of Pro- 

 fessor Wright and is evidently reviewed with the other to transfer 

 ridicule and abuse from one to the other, if that may be accomplished . 



