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THE GEOLOGIST. 



hesitate to put forward our opinions on such dubious mat- 

 ters. It is, moreover, not so much the question of the 

 geologist as the philosopher. We acknowledge certain oc- 

 currences, and can trace their effects beyond all doubt, and 

 they are alone in the capacity to argue the " why and because 

 of the phenomena. The work fully merits the title which has 

 been bestowed upon it ; and if every naturalist went on his 

 excursions with the same determined spirit of research as 

 our author, we doubt not but that science would receive 

 rapid accessions of facts, and he himself reap a rich harvest 

 of thought. 



We have received a notice from Coblentz, on the banks 

 of the Rhine, to the effect, that the shock of an earthquake 

 was felt, in a very distinct manner, throughout a district of 

 country, several miles in length, extending in a south- 

 westerly direction from that place. By reference to any 

 geological map, it v/ill be seen, that this occurred in a dis- 

 trict of volcanic origin, constituted of large tracts of basalt 

 and porphyry. 



Ed. Geologist. 



