UNITED STATES. 



INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE SOIL. 



1. Granitic region^ 



The first, which is that of granites, is bounded by' 

 the Atlantic ccean, reckoning from Long Island to 

 the mouth of the St. Lawrance ; thence by aline pro- 

 ceeding up that river to lake Ontario, or rather te 

 Kingston, formerly Frcntenac, and the place called 

 Thousand Isles, passing by the sources and course 

 of the Mohawk to Hudson's river, along which it 

 returns to the point of departure, Long Island. 

 Throughout the whole of this space the soil rests oh 

 beds of granite, which form the skeletons of the 

 mountains, and admit beds of a different nature only 

 as exceptions. The granite exposes itself to view in 

 all the environs of the city of New York : it is the 

 nucleus of Longlsland, where sands have been accu- 

 mulated round it, and v/orn by the sea:^ and it may 

 be traced without interruption on all the coast of 

 Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, ex- 

 cepting cape Cod, which is formed of sand brought 

 by the great current of the Gulf of Mexico and the 



* The editors of the Med. Repository notice this position as erro- 

 neous. LoDg Island, say they, has no nucleas. It contains no stratifi- 

 ed granites, except for a small space about Hell Gate. The ridge of 

 feills running through it i& compostfil <rf sand^ Jj?'av^l> loam* Wid?k> 

 limestones and rock^, , 



