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THE INDIA REVIEW 
OF WORKS ON SCIENCE 
AND 
JOURNAL OF FOREIGN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. 
EMBRACING 
MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, PHYSICS, &c. 
REVIEW 
Some enquiries in the Province ofKamaon 
relative to Geology and other Branches 
of Natural Science ^ hy Assistant Sur- 
geon John McClelland, Member 
of the Royal College of Surgeons, in 
London yund of the Medical and Physical 
Society, Calcutta, Oct. pp. 384. — 
Thacker, & Co., Calcutta. 
It has been said that no man can be con- 
sidered enlightened without knowing some- 
thing of Geology. Cuvier was the first to 
awaken research in this interesting science 
in our own country, and in Geology Bri- 
tain now presents the first experimental 
School in the world. If we would know 
the importance of topographical and 
geological illustrations, we have only to 
examine the transactions of the Geological 
Society of London. By means of this 
science we learn what are the resources 
of a country, what are its mineral and 
vendible products, what are the organic 
remains in its rocks, volcanos, and other 
geological phenomena. It is this fas- 
cinating research which takes the man of 
science to survey the lovely face of 
nature, the sublime heights of the mountain, 
and to direct his attention in a pro- 
found admiration to the depths of the valley, 
the graceful aspect of the plains, the blue 
ocean, the broad lake, and the meandering 
river, all which come within the boundary of 
his enquiry. His view is not limited by the 
stupendous rocks which burst the angry bil- 
lows : even the pebbles of the deep and the 
mountain stream afford to him equal interest. 
WhUe tracing the torrent’s source to the 
elevated mountain, which receives continual 
accession from melting snow, and swelling and 
bursting over its natural banks, carries 
with it over the face of the plains deposits 
of mineral substances as it passes along 
and finally forms delta and other rivers ; 
his investigations are made on the sure 
grounds of mathematical, astronomical, and 
chemical demonstrations. There is no 
spot where he fails to discover the universal 
and everlasting physical records of 
diluvial action, and the physical and moral 
evidence of the surface of our planet having 
submitted at some period or other to the 
mastery of the waters. To the other depart- 
ments of this important subject we there- 
fore add the study of investigating whence at 
the depths of hundreds of feet, we discover 
the teeth and tusks of the elephant, whence 
the remains of other animals which once liv- 
ed. But this science besides posse ssing such 
deep interest to the Philosopher, subserves 
greatly the cause of husbandry as regards 
the admixture of soUs, the application of 
manures, the spreading of sea shells upon 
the sandy fields, the effects produced by 
lime, in the tenacious clays, &c. We 
could enlarge in rapturous praise of Geology 
as it advanees the cause of medicine 
and the arts, but we have not space. 
Taking this view of Geological knowledge, 
it is with no common feeling of delight that 
we behold a work, from the pen of Dr. 
McClelland, on the Geology of Kemaon. 
