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den to be more limited than is generally 

 supposed. 



The Geological Survey of the County of j^lba- 

 ny^ 'm 1821, by Messrs. Beck and Eaton, a si- 

 milar Survey of the County of Rensselaer^ and a 

 Report of the Geological Structure of the County 

 (y^Sara/o^a, by Dr. Steele, will be found highly 

 interesting, and adds much to our previous 

 knowledge of these districts. These exa- 

 minations of different counties will at some 

 future period;, furnish important materials 

 for a grand geological map of the state of 

 New-York. It is a subject of regret, that 

 our own island, which has been settled for 

 two hundred years, and now contains a po- 

 pulation of more than 170,000 souls, should 

 have received so little attention from the ge- 

 ologists, who, at different times, have resided 

 here, or visited our shores. We are, in fact, 

 accustomed to bestow an undue share of 

 our attention upon the structure of the Ertz- 

 geberge or Himalayah mountains, or to pe- 

 ruse with avidity minute descriptions of the 

 respective formations of Paris and London, 

 while we permit equally instructive pheno- 

 mena, within our reach, and immediately 



