504 Mr, Otley on the Northern Strata . [Jan. 1, 
“ O bonnie damsel stay, and me forgive, I pray, 
Foi daring to question that pearly tear ; 
For much I wish to know, the cause of thy woe, 
And why a maid so lovely wandereth here.” 
“ My mother dear, is dead, and my father he is 
wed 
To a hard-hearted jade, from Urgan town ; 
This morn, b> break of day, she turned me away, 
And I to seek a home am for Oldham bound. 
“ Were this my only woe, my tears would cease to 
flow, 
For I have heart and hand my bread to gain, 
But the lad I loved well, in the field of battle fell, 
And he will never more return from Spain.” 
Then she wept as she spake, as if her heart would 
break: 
“ I can't but think of him when I look on thee ; 
But Sebastian was strong, and the battle lasted 
long, 
And he died with the flower of our infantry.” 
And then adown her face, the tears ran apace, 
And 1 sobbed as loud as sobbed she ; 
And I doff d my hat of grey, and my frock I flung 
away, 
And then my lovely maiden she remembered me. 
O, how can I express the gush of happiness 
Which burst like a flood on my troubled heart; 
For my love remained kind, whom I long had left 
behind, 
And we now were united never more to part. 
O thou bonny green hill, my heart with joy doth 
thrill 
When I see but a glimpse of thy shady grove ; 
For then I call to mind, w hen we sought thy shelter 
kind, 
How enraptur’d I clasp’d in my arms my love. 
We might proceed to extract other 
poems, which would be equally honour¬ 
able to the feelings and abilities of their 
author, but we have only room to ob¬ 
serve, that he is as successful in his 
jocular and satirical attempts, as in his 
serious pieces. We may instance 44 The 
Bard’s Reformation,” and 44 The Ar¬ 
rest,’’ as exhibiting a strong genius for 
this kind of writing. We cannot con¬ 
jecture whether circumstances will 
ever allow Mr. Bamford to emerge into 
public notice with the high pretensions 
of a poet. He is poor, uneducated, and 
obscure, but he has given us the sam¬ 
ple of a rich vein of mind, which might, 
if properly cultivated, produce much 
valuable matter. We have been struck 
with the appearance of the ore, though 
unrefined and rude; and shall be 
happy if it is our fortune to meet with 
it hereafter in a purer form. But what¬ 
ever his fortune may be, we perceive 
that Mr. Bamford possesses a spirit of 
manly resolution equal to any encoun¬ 
ter. To a mind conscious of its own 
force, and firm in its own integrity, all 
conditions of life are the same; and 
though he might be happy in the fame 
of a poet, he must be one of those who 
acknowledge a much higher claim to 
distinction in the character of a patri¬ 
otic citizen, and of an honest man. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine . 
SIR, 
HAVE seen a book just published 
by Mr. Westgarth Forster, of Als¬ 
ton, being the second edition of a Trea¬ 
tise on a Section of the Strata, from 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Mountain 
Crossfell; a district highly interesting, 
as, besides giving employment to a nu¬ 
merous population, it supplies a consi¬ 
derable portion of the metropolis with 
fuel; and for its valuable deposits of 
lead ore it stands unrivalled, having, 
upon an average of several years, pro¬ 
duced near twelve thousand tons of lead 
annually; besides a considerable por¬ 
tion of silver, upwards of sixty-three 
thousand ounces being refined in the 
last year, at the works belonging to the 
commissioners and governors of Green¬ 
wich Hospital only. 
This work contains much valuable 
local and practical information respect¬ 
ing mineral veins, the working of 
mines, dressing and smelting of lead 
ores, &c. divested of theory, which, as 
the author observes in his preface, 44 has 
hitherto been the bane of geological 
science ; it has cramped the efforts of 
enquiry, and paralyzed the exertions of 
research.” 
Some examples adduced of theactual 
crossing of veins, can hardly be recon¬ 
ciled to that part of the theory of Wer¬ 
ner, which regards the relative age of 
veins. Where two veins cross or in¬ 
tersect each other, one of them generally 
seems, not only to traverse and divide 
the other, but also frequently to sepa¬ 
rate the parts of the vein so traversed, 
to a considerable distance in the direc¬ 
tion of the traversed vein. That vein 
which continues its course uninterrupt¬ 
edly, has, in conformity to the above 
theory, been considered as of newer for¬ 
mation : but the facts stated by Mr. 
Forster would seem to lead to an oppo¬ 
site conclusion, namely, that the vein 
which continues in a direct course (or 
at least some joint or crack in its place) 
has existed anterior to the one whose 
parts appear to have been separated 
but which I think more probable, were 
never continuous. J. Otley. 
Keswick , Nov. 16,1821. 
For the Monthly Magazine . 
The MILITARY SYSTEMS of M. CARNOT 
and SIR H. DOUGLAS compared. 
HE distinguished rank held by 
Carnot in the revolutionary go¬ 
vernment of France, and his acknow¬ 
ledged talents as an engineer, have 
conferred 
