A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . o present a detailed account ofthe general science of geology. For valuable and well-digested treatises on this sub-ject, we refer to Cuviers Theory of the. Earth, and LyelVs Principles of Geology. Thevolumes of SiUimans Journal, and Professor Cleavelands works,
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . o present a detailed account ofthe general science of geology. For valuable and well-digested treatises on this sub-ject, we refer to Cuviers Theory of the. Earth, and LyelVs Principles of Geology. Thevolumes of SiUimans Journal, and Professor Cleavelands works, abound in importantmatter on the geology of our continent. 257 CHAPTER XIX.—NATURAL CURIOSITIES. It is our intention to collect under this general head a few miscellaneousdescriptions, that could not have been properly placed under any other divi-sion. The space that we can devote to this subject is small, and it is im-possible to enter into much detail. Among the most admired and interest-ing natural curiosities of our country, are the Pictured Rocks, of lake Su-perior, which have been described by an intelligent traveller to whose obser-vation we have been already largely indebted. The Pictured Rocks, says Mr. Schoolcraft, are a series of lofty bluffs,which continue for twelve miles along the shore, and present some of the. Pictured Rocks. most sublime and commanding views in nature. We had been told, byour Canadian guide, of the variety in the color and form of these rocks,but were wholly unprepared to encounter the surprising groups of over-hanging precipices, towering walls, caverns, waterfalls, and prostrate ruins,which are here mingled in the most wonderful disorder, and burst upon theview in ever-varying and pleasing succession. In order to convey anyjust idea of their magnificence, it is necessary to premise, that this part ofthe shore consists of a sandstone rock of a light gray color internally, anddeposited stratum super-stratum to the height of three hundred fee
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