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logical beds, effected by the joint labours of the most enlightened 

 geologists of Europe. The establishment of the series in this de- 

 tailed manner, is the perfection of human industry and science, 

 and is the true , philosophical key to the mineral and organic 

 structure of the earth. And here we have an experienced teacher, 

 who does not know how to spell his native tongue, and whose 

 geological information is limited to a few rocks in the State of 

 New- York, stating, that Mr. de la Beche will ruin the science, for 

 no other reason, that we can imagine, but to exclude from public 

 notice, every work upon the subject, except his own." — Reviewer, 



" The only geological fact in this work, which is absolutely new 

 to us, is contained in the following passage. 



" He, (Werner,) closed his long life in the full splendour of his 

 scientitic glory, in the same year (1817) in which we begun to 

 make our humble efforts in the application of his views to Ameri- 

 can earth." 



" Werner was singularly happy in two things ; one, that he did 

 not outlive his reputation ; the other, that he died before Mr. 

 Eaton applied his views to American earth." A few lines after- 

 wards, he says, " Scarcely had that earth received his (Werner's) 

 manes, &c." " We would suggest to Mr. Eaton, that manes and 

 remains, however similar in sound, do not mean the same thing." — 

 Review. 



The writer in the North American Review, does not wish fur- 

 ther to encumber the pages of the Monthly Journal of Geology 

 and Natural Science, by quotations from the article in question. 

 There are certain passages alluded to, which bring Mr. Eaton's 

 want of fair dealing into a conspicuous point of view; and others, 

 as at page 488, which are ridiculously amusing. Nothing can be 

 more gross than his blunders, when he ventures to talk about 

 organic remains, a branch of Geology he is entirely ignorant of 

 Thus, at page 51, he says, "But immediately over the carboni- 

 ferous slate (coal measures) we find oviparous vertebral animals. 

 1 have before me the rehcs of a crotalus (rattle snake,) found by 

 Dr. Rose, of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Hence, we infer, that 

 oviparous vertebral animals were created soon after the bitumi- 

 nous coal deposites were made." The palpable absurdity of this 

 assertion was exposed by the Reviewer. Every geologist knows 

 that all the reptiles belonging to the ophidia, are exclusively of 

 the present order of nature, and that a man might as well say 



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