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A TREATISE ON TIIE EXTERNAL CHARACTERS ' OF FOSSILS. INTRODUCTION. Of Mineralogy in General. §•1. All sciences are valuable; differing only in this respect, that some are more extensively useful than others, or more immediately related to common life. * i 2. One of the most generally useful, and nearly in dispensable to civil society, is Mineralogy, or the natural history of fossils. Its utility to the Miner, Smelter, Physician, Chemist, Natural Philosopher, &c. is too well known to need particular notice here ; and it would be contrary to my present design to hold a panegyric on this science. §.3. ' Of the several branches of Mineralogy *, Oryc- tognosy is unquestionably the most important; espe cially * To the reader, unacquainted with Mr. Werner’s method of treating Mineralogy, it may not be useless to observe that, consider ing this science in different points of view, he has accordingly dis tributed it into five distinct branches, treating of each separately— as