Mtf 2. lamellar, 3. foliated, 
4. schistose, 5. slaty, 6, tabu- 
lar, t. stratified, which are pa- 
rallel, promiscuous or partial, 
&. beds or spreading masses, 
9- angular or polyedrous, with 
3 to 6 angles and sides, and 
either columnar or bent or 
curved, distorted, with concre- 
tions, &c. 
5th Series Veins , Of 3 kinds 
By size, 1. filamentose, 2. radi- 
cose, 3. dykes or huge veins. 
But of 6 kinds by directions, 
1 . interposed, £. intercurrent, 
3. intersecting, 4. insulated, 5. 
connected, 6. branched, 
6th Series. Mountain masses. 
Of 5 kinds, 1. homogenous, £• 
venigenous, 3. aggregate, 4. 
Stratified, 5. unstratified. (K.) 
MohsbyC.S.& 
A . These views although partly 
astronomical and geogonical are 
perhaps the base of geol ogy They 
heed no comment. Those who 
have adopted a different vievy of 
geogony will not assent perhaps? 
but if they bow to nancies those 
of Laplace, Herschell, Lasalle, 
Lamethrre, Patrin, Hibbert, and 
fifty other geologists of note, may 
have some* weight. Although lia 
ble to controversy like all re- 
mote agencies* they have intrinsic 
plausibility, and agree with all 
the known phenomena. 
These important facts of the 
intermixture of strata, may be ve- 
rified in some way or other by all 
careful Observers. I have seen 
them both in Europe and America, 
gnd not merely in the primitive as 
Hibbert, but in all the other series, 
Transition, Secondary, Tertiary 
and Volcanic! 1 have seen strata 
running into each other or pene- 
trating their neighbours in Sicily,' 
Ohio, Kentucky, and the Allegha- 
nies. Prof. Eaton has observed 
something alike in the strata 
which he has called Cuneiform., 
This is a curious subject, not yet 
well understood by geologists, and 
requiring more explanation than I 
can now give. It is evident that 
new strata may fill vacuities and 
clefts in older strata,- and that vol- 
canic (or impelled) streams of sto- 
ny matter can penetrate softer 
strata. 
It is probable that not a single’ 
Stratum is concentric to the whole 
earth, but all strata are local, 
superposed or annexed or inter- 
mingled. 
C. All our geological maps and 
sections are at present carica- 
tures, deficient in proportions and 
details. The best map can only 
show the superficial stratum, and 
sections are more the offspring of 
fancy than truth. 
D. But this fluid was not the 
actual sea as commonly supposed, 
it must have been the waters of a 
part of the ocean filled with ema- 
nations either from the atmosphere 
or submarine eruptions of volca- 
noes or springs. 
E. Except granitic and taleose 
Rocks, which are specially pri- 
mitive almost all the others are 
also found with organic remains. 
F. I have long ago, (in 1819) 
considered springs as Volcanoes 
of water ^ and volcanoes as springs 
of fire. The analogy is striking, 
and the Volcanic geysers, mud and 
water eruptions, blend by gCaduaf 
links with the mineral and hot- 
springs. 
6. There is nothing to disprove 
and much to prove that every mi- 
neral substance and stratum, may 
have been formed or ejected by the 
agency of volcanic eruptions M: 
