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generation of Beings. Marine plants, 
Fu cites, Torebratulites, and other 
shells, &c. Therefore that no bones, 
nor any terrestrial animal, much less 
quadrupeds can be found there, nor 
their bones decay in it, form moulds 
and rocky casts washed away by di~ 
luvion or alluvion ! 
Therefore, this Rhinoceroides is a 
non entity! a blunder in doctrine 
and fact, worse than the petrified 
rattle snake of Silliman’s journal, 
so much ridiculed by both the au- 
thors of this egregious geological and 
oryctological error. A mere casual 
concretion of indurated sand, or 
broken rolled fragment of sandstone 
grit ! a lusus natura like Mr. F. 
The blunder is great, it is not sur- 
rizing in Mr. F. who never , yet 
hew our fossils! but it is shameful 
for Dr. Harlan, who is otherwise a 
clever Anatomist. It would prove 
that Mr. F. with all his pretensions, 
is only a pseudo Geologist and no 
Oryctologist at all. Since he has 
gratified Prof. Buckland and others 
with new casts out of his pseudo 
cast, and if he lias succeeded to de- 
ceive them, we venture to suggest to 
him a manufacture of such fossil 
casts; we shall if he wishes, send, 
Stone Cutters to carve them by hun- 
dreds for him in the Alleghany 
Mountains, and furnish him very 
cheap all kinds of Sandstone Bones, 
and jawbones of Camels, Girafes, 
Whales, Lions, Mammoths, Mon- 
keys, and even Men! with 100 N. 
Genera to grace his Journal when 
resumed. 
Perhaps he was served in that way 
with the Rhinoceroides, & this would 
be charity to him: it would prove 
him as credulous as Dr. Mitchell, or 
Silliman, or Eaton, and ignorant of 
Ory otology; but would clear him of 
intentional imposition on the public, 
if the warnings of Mr. Hayden and 
others did not rather operate against 
him. ' C.'S. R. 
11. Coal Mines of Mantle o in the 
Mleghany Mountains. By. Br. 
FowelL 
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Dr. W. B. Powell, of Baltimore, 
who is a very intelligent Geologist, al- 
though of the Wernerian school, has 
furnished us some facts respecting 
the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania j 
which he deems of Chemical forma- 
tion in concave basins, and by no 
means of Vegetable origin. As he 
proposes to publish in Silliman’s 
Journal these results of his long re- 
searches, we shall merely give here 
one of the facts communicated by 
him. 
At the Nantico Falls of the Sus- 
quehannah, near Wilkesbarre, Lu- 
zerne county, the following are the 
succession of formations, where Coal 
Mines are formed in a kind of con- 
cave Basin, well displayed at the falls. 
First formation, thin soil, newest 
of. course. 
Second, Slate, five to eight feet 
thick, newest stone. 
Third, Millstone Grit, ten feet 
in the middle, thicker on the sides 
of the basin. 
Fourth, Second Slate ten feet in 
the middle, becoming gradually 100 
feet on the sides. 
Fifth, First Anthracite Coal, 15 
feet thick. 
Sixth, Third Slate, 15 feet, 30 
on the sides. 
Seventh, Second Anthracite Coal, 
seven feet thick. 
Eighth, Milstone Grit, with con- 
glomerate, 125 feet thick. 
Ninth, Bluish Sandstone with 
particles of Mica in it, 100 feet 
thick. 
Tenth, Red Sandstone, 125 feet 
thick in the middle, less on the 
sides. 
Eleventh and last formation reach- 
ed. White Grawacke, very thick, 
and forming also a basin or concave 
support to the whole. 
This Coal Basin therefore, has 
been penetrated or pan be traced 
about 450 feet in the centre, and 
above 600 on the sides; it affords a 
fine illustration of the stratifications 
connected with Coal in the Allegha- 
nies; but other localities display dif- 
Iferent successions. 
