Before closing our' few desultory remarks on this, in some respects, ill-tempered review, it is but justice to the reviewer to say,. that the strictly geological portion of it, is full of valuable information, as to the present state, prospects, and opinions of the most laborious cultivators of that important science. Nor was less to be expected from the well-known talent andacknowledged ability of Professor Sedgwick, and as we have already said, our only regret is, that the speculative opinions hazarded by the author of the volume under notice, should have been met, in such an intolerant spirit. But as we have already hinted, Protessor Sedgwick is not alone in his hostility to the volume, most other geologi-ts havingdeclared open waragainst it. Wehavegathered this fact from a proceeding taken by our diligent and enterprising friend Dr. Hume, who, ina fit of very commendable zeal, coupled with no triflinghumility, wrote to all of them, of any note, to get their optnions of the book, before he ventured to print his own, From this. correspondence, which he has tacked, by way of life buor, to his very ingenious little paper on the subject, we have gathered, that, to a man-or rather, to a philosopher, including the respected Dr. himself-they all join in tearing our author to tatters. With respect to