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But when we find a wise and laborious man, who joins reason 
with experience, we cannot fail of some happy production from 
him, both useful, and in the path of truth, sooner than enjoy, even 
one of these agreeables, from one who has but one of these excel- 
lencies. 
Experience teaches wisdom to those who will profit by her 
lessons, and there is no doubt but that if the motto " science with 
practice," be as strictly observed in its management, and is in- 
culcated upon those who are engaged in the cultivation of the 
soil, the result will be equally beneficial. 
Science will never make a good farmer, without the admixture 
of a little practical knowledge. 
Practice has introduced more discoveries into agriculture, as- 
sisted by observation, than science. At the same time, though 
the man of science Mull not presume to dictate to the skilful, 
practical farmer, he may not only improve but enlighten and even 
give dignity to agriculture as an art, by rendering it in some de- 
gree a science also. 
NOTES OF A GEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION AND SURVEY OF 
MITCHELL'S CAVE, TOWN OF ROOT, COUNTY OF MONT- 
GOMERY, N.Y. 
BY JAMES EIGHTS. 
The many interesting discoveries which had been made in the 
various caverns of Europe, of the remains of numerous animals of 
unknown species, which had an existence on the earth, and were 
likewise swept from its surface long e'er the period of man's ex- 
istence, having created an unusual degree of excitement amono- 
men of science in other countries as well as our own, we were 
consequently, strongly induced to bestow some little time and at- 
tention to the investigation of one or more of the different caves 
which were well known to have an existence in many of the rock 
formations belonging to our own state, for the purpose of deter- 
mining if relics of a similar nature might not also there be found. 
