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A pukUc Acknowledgment. 
To the public I beg leave to remark that 
the meeting assembled in the Court House 
at Hamilton on the 31st. ultimo consisting 
of citizens of Hamilton and Rossville, Mr. 
James M'Bride in the Chair & Jehiel Brooks 
Esq. Secretary passed a resolution by a u- 
nanimous vote recommending the new The¬ 
ory of the Earth to be worthy the attention 
of the American people. The adjournment 
followed the resolution so immediately 1 
had barely time to make a single remark 
by way of acknowledgment. But a high 
sense of the honor arid benefit which that 
meeting is calculated to confer induces the 
wish that an acknowledgment should be 
recorded in the ne wspapers of the day suita¬ 
ble to the occasions hoping & trusting howev¬ 
er that posterity will do more ample justice 
to the resolution than this feeble attempt of ; 
twine. I therefore defer the communica- | 
tion of my wish with this reiteration of my 
most sincere gratitude to that community 
which constituted the meeting. 
Already have several editors of Cincinna¬ 
ti papers determined to copy the resolution 
from the Hamiltion papers and scon I trust 
will the disposition to examine 
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and commend, thus begun at Hamilton, 
spread like an undulating wave from its cen¬ 
tre in Butler County Ohio to the utmost 
regions of civilization thus conferring an 
honorary reward on a life devoted to re¬ 
search and virtually compensate for the 
time spent in the attainment of a succession 
truthsW devolopements of philosophic 
With high hoDe in the nlrimuta 
u.jsi terrestrial sphere. 
Ni J °HN CI.EVES SYMMES. 
