48 CI:bLOGY OF THE CAMPSlE HlLt^; 



The above observations relative to some of th^ 

 facts and tenets connected with the two theories 

 in geology, which are so much at variance with 

 each other, are certainly in a great degree foreign 

 to the greater part of the subject which this paper 

 was originally intended to embrace. But having, 

 in the first part of this memoir, carefully avoided 

 mixing descriptmi with theory, and as a phenome- 

 non occurs in the district described, which is one 

 of the controverted points, I have presumed to 

 lay before this Society a few of the facts which 

 relate to both of the theories, and which consist 

 of those alone which have fallen under my own 

 observations when visiting various parts of the 

 globe ; but, in doing so, I am afraid, that accord- 

 ing to the opinion of some, and perhaps accord- 

 ing to my own, I have been led into a digres- 

 sion, which I have made too multifarious, and 

 considerably too long ; for which I here beg leave 

 to apologize, 



I, however, cannot here refrain from adding one 

 more observation relative to an extreme bad effect 

 which a violent support of theory in geology leads 

 to, and which I am certain, must have been ob- 

 served and regretted by all impartial geologists. 

 Where the too keen and extravagant support of 

 theory has crept in, and where prejudice has 

 taken root^ we must bid adieu to all candid geolo^ 

 gical description. Not that I here mean to al- 

 lege, that all describers of geological scenery, un- 



