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PRoGREss OF GEoLoGY.-A distinguished Fro
fessor of ore Of the Eastern Colleges remarked,
some time since, that when he took the station be
now occupies he did not know that there was but
one kind Of stone in the world and did not know
the name of that. He has since published a
work Gu Mineralogy and Geology, which has been
translated into the French and German languages,
both of which nations it is used as a textbook,
and has been pronounced by an English reviewer
as the best work extant on that subject. Geology
is now a common braxch in the most elementary
schools, and is about being introduced into the
schools in Mexico and South America, for which
Cabinets have been ordered from this city. n.


HAox.-The Detroit Advertiser thus speaks OF
the letter in tho Unien signed Haon'-which 1t
has asserted was written by John Tyler if his own
word could be believed:


MIR. Tyler, Jr., seems, chooses to throw him.
SELF upon his dignity, and will not coudesceRd to
notice so insignificant and contemplate concern
as the Advertiser. He must have changed his
opinion OF It since he sought to purchase its sup
port, proposed 10 become one Of its correspond.
ents, ana altered ttis oer,y article of Raon' az
his Erst contribution TO SIS coianms. Then. too.
he was anxious to claim the authorship of Haon'
and was wiling to lavish the public patronage TO
procure It's Insertion as his own.


10 The snow is eighteen inches deep, and
dsifted very little. The sleighing is therefore ex
celleu,, or at least, viii be, when the roads are
sufficiently beaten. So heavy fail of snow thu.
early in the season is unusual, and affords q pros
Pect OF a long winter. Troy Wing.





MAINE SLArg.-We learn that q large quantity
of roofing slate Of an excellen, quality has been
qusfed and prepared for market at Barnard, north