. Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge [microform] : in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. & Natural history; Indians; Sciences naturelles; Indiens. China e ONI 1-81 in- ^hinese erica i» to theni y early SHAM, Chinese over the jsia and that the II Ameri- e is not I and Lu- )ld China, anguages. I has yet ient Gins before the d Shang» nd partly C. S. R. IRERS IN B
. Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge [microform] : in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. & Natural history; Indians; Sciences naturelles; Indiens. China e ONI 1-81 in- ^hinese erica i» to theni y early SHAM, Chinese over the jsia and that the II Ameri- e is not I and Lu- )ld China, anguages. I has yet ient Gins before the d Shang» nd partly C. S. R. IRERS IN BICA- now engaged ,f Florid*, for , as well as all lie has tno It, ha* been ex- for two yeart eeds. He *»â¢â¢ anil gardener*. Louii two ton* omhie»oj«geto in 1831 up the le haa brought a the Philadelphia )00 bird* and 60 there. It i» «»* tn account of hit He ai- ew flihes. ⢠the Niger or ind by Lander to e large Delta of and the R. Nun nkseller Murray '..-the Journal of tiler, ha» explored to the N. E. at â the equator. We rhcre he will pub- 27 20. GEOLOGY. Entrance OF the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. TAe Caves of Kentucky. By C. S. Uakinesque. Among the various and curious geological phenomena of Kentucky, the numerous Caves of that region are not the least interesting. They have attracted long as;o the atten- tion of travellers and Geographers; but I was the first to examine them geologically and zoologically, from 1818 to 1826. In the last war, between 1812 and 1815, they became of some impor- tance by affording a good deal of Saltpetre by lixiviation of their soil. But all did not afford it, i>oine con- tained a mere stone floor, or stalag- mites, or a diluvial clay. 'Iheir number is unknown, be- ing too many for enumeration; per- haps fifteen hundred or more; of all sizes from ten yards to ten miles in extent. They are found chiefly in the limestone region or the cal- careous strata; but the greatest number is situat
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