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THE GEOLOGIST, 
in its unlimited range^ is a theme of sucli magnitude^ tliat we 
are compelled to divide and apportion it_, and this apportion- 
ment gives rise to local histoiy/^ and it is therefore in following 
out this excellent idea^ that our author^ regarding geology only 
as another name for early history^ has placed it first in his work, 
the whole of which will throw much light upon the points under 
consideration ; and if others are as interested in local records as 
ourselves, will amply repay a careful perusal. 
2. A few Remarks on the Geolog7j of Bacton, By Charles 
Green, Norwich, Josiah Fletcher, 1842. 
Mr. Green has compressed within the limits of his small work 
so large a mass of information as we have rarely seen in any 
memoir on local geology, and has proceeded upon the laudable 
system, not of bookmaking, but of condensing and placing be- 
fore his readers as much as has been done with respect to the 
subject in as short a statement as possible ; with one exception 
he has treated the facts so that they may be intelligible to the 
tyro in geology, and points out to him the peculiar natui-e of the 
situation of Bacton — the constitution of the cliffs and soil, and 
the fossils found in them — we cannot say more as to the merits 
of the author, but the subject offers many points for profitable 
enquiry. We have given elsewhere an extract of the chapter 
on the Lignite of Bacton," and we will in this place merely 
add that the several strata may be studied wdth considerable ad- 
vantage, as they are principally local deposits, and their con- 
tents vary considerably from others which agree in lithological 
character and might otherwise be considered identical. 
