Professor Cleaveland will, of course, add new localities, even
foreign ones, where they are interesting, and domestic ones, where
they are well authenticated. Among the former, we trust he will
mention the lake of sulphuric acid contained in the crater of
Mount Idienne, in the Province of Bagnia Vangni, in the eastern
part of Java, and also the river of sulphuric acid which flows
from it and kills animals, scorches vegetation, and corrodes the
stones.[10] Among American localities, we beg leave to mention
violet fluor spar, abundant and very handsome, near Shawnee Town,
on the Ohio, in the Illinois Territory, and galena, of which this
fluor is the gangue;--sulphat of magnesia, perfectly crystallized,
in masses composed of delicate white prisms, in a cave in the
Indiana Territory, not very remote from Louisville, in Kentucky;
it is said to be so abundant that the inhabitants carry it away by
the wagon load;--pulverulent carbonat of magnesia, apparently pure,
found by Mr. Pierce at Hoboken, in serpentine, where the hydrate of
magnesia was found;--chabasie, agates, chalcedony, amethyst, and
analcime, at Deerfield, by Mr. E. Hitchcock;--agates in abundance
at East-Haven, near New-Haven, in secondary greenstone, like
the above-named minerals at Deerfield;--saline springs, covered
with petroleum, and emitting large volumes of inflammable gases,
numerous in New-Connecticut, south of Lake Erie;--magnetical
pyrites, abundant in the bismuth vein, at Trumbull,
Connecticut:--very brilliant fine-grained micaceous iron, in large
masses near Bellows' Falls; yellow foliated blende, in Berlin,
Connecticut, and near Hamilton College--the latter discovered by
Professor Noyes; it is in veins in compact limestone;--red oxid
of titanium, often geniculated, at Leyden, in Massachusetts,
discovered by Mr. E. Hitchcock;--red oxid of titanium, in very
large crystals and geniculated, imbedded in micaceous schistus, at
Oxford, 20 miles north from New-Haven;--silicious petrifactions of
wood, abundant in the island of Antigua, recently brought by Mr.
Pelatiah Perit, of New-York;--sulphuret of molybdena, at Pettipaug,
and at East-Haddam, Connecticut;--prehnite abundant and beautiful,
in secondary greenstone, at Woodbury, 24 miles north of New-Haven,
discovered by Mr. Elijah Baldwin;--black oxid of manganese, in
great abundance, and of an excellent quality, near Bennington,
Vermont, and plumose mica, in a very fine graphic granite, in a
hill two miles north of Watertown, Connecticut.
The introduction to the STUDY OF GEOLOGY, deserves a more extended
series of remarks than it would now be proper to make, after so
full a consideration of the previous parts of the work.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account