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ence, have not onlj elucidated many ob- 

 scure points connected with the rock for- 

 mations of Connecticut and Massachusetts, 

 but have powerfully contributed to promote 

 an increased attention to geological inqui- 

 ries. 



To the same journal we are indebted for 

 several articles by Messrs. Bringier, Pierce, 

 and Cornelius, on the Geology of the south- 

 ern and western states, and it gives us much 

 pleasure to state that the legislature of 

 South Carolina have recently authorized a 

 mineralogical and geological examination of 

 that state. The object of the legislature, in 

 authorizing this examination, is stated to 

 give every citizen an opportunity of deter- 

 mining with certainty the kinds, as well as 

 the value and use, of the rocks and minerals 

 found upon his lands ; to form a collection 

 of the different kinds of rocks, arranged ac- 

 cording to the districts or counties, and at 

 the same time to furnish materials for the 

 mineral history of the state, and for a ge- 

 ological map of the same. The legisla- 

 ture of North Carolina, animated by a simi- 

 lar liberal policy, which is worthy of imita- 

 tion by other states possessing more exten- 



