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lo considerations of theoretical importance concerning the changes which the surface of Southern Russia has 
undergone, and which are ably put forth by M. Le Play, we shall not at present advert, reserving our views on 
these points for the concluding chapters of our work, when all the elements which we can bring together shall 
have been laid before our readers, to enable them to see the grounds upon which we come to our conclusions. 
For the present, then, we take leave of this volume of M. Le Play, which, though it contains views from 
which we differ, we regard as an important addition to the records of physical science, and as possessing infi- 
nitely more the character of a good monographic description of one tract, than anything which, from the extensive 
nature of our researches, we are enabled to offer . — February 15, 1843. 
