Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-13

SiOn, as We SIouSty SuspSSl ~ w oes Wv
author should be detected and exposed, for
attempting such an imposition on the world.
Il is Mr.. Mennessier's duty, to publish all
+ he information he 10 possessed of on this
fsubiecs, as. he at least knows who gave
him the letter for publication.
-sfFrom the Cincinnati Adprrsiser. :
COMMUNICATED.
Extracted letter from a gentleman, resi-
dent Of Philadelphia, to his friend in this
place, dated Bedford, penn HAY 1st,
1910.
AS astonishing as the information and
discovery which now transmit to you, and
unexpected as the event vast me, so much
surprised must all the world be at the i'm
portane development Of the all important
facts Go the philosophical mind) OF which |
now inform you: conscious am OF the
greatness of the discovery and the necessity
of particular description of the events
which led to and attended circumstance
which has shed (by means of she clear rx-
position of facts contained in the manu-
scripts hereafter mentioned, and which will
be ere long offered to tha world tor phlio-
sophical lnvestiga.ion:and universal bensht)
luminous Light into the dark and invxpi!-
! cable abyss of obscurity which has sur
rounded and envelored the heretofore, SO
many mysterious circumstances of univer-
sal de!uge which you know has been de-
| niedby tie greater number Of modem phi
losophers, particularly of the new school,
on the grounds that there is not in the COM
position of this globea sufficient quantity ct
water; and tsnay surprize the-phllosophs
ola future day know that, with many @.
theirs, gent man of considerable scientific
importance, in his notes on Virginia, has
actually made collection 10 convince man
kind that there never was All universal de-
huge AT any rate, every person VII! con-
celve that calculation and all others OF like
nature, as equally futile and unphilosophs
cal, for every contemplative mind VIII a,
once observe, that although the portion 81
water in this globe is insufficient TO ad
-z.-.-is-----> the surface of the 'F"
present Situation AiIu Iorm,' yet, las was
undoubtedly the case at the sitne Ut the de-
LUCE if the earth should, as it were. sink
within herself" there would be an ample
sufhciency OF water to cover it to a very
considerable depth And in this doctrine
so little thought OF BY dests, would be &C.
counted for, the quantities Of marine shells
and other substances, which are 80 much
> and so astonshingly diversified through
numerous parts OF this cal tn and Lhave
no hesitation 10 aver that the facts which
will shortly be offered to the world, will
be amply sufficient to lay open to view and
clearly elacidate maey points of nature and
philosophy on which heretofore the most
sagacious genius and most intense specuIa.
tion has been applied in vain, and nought
attended their investigation but doubt and
uncertainty, and the mind returned from
the attempt equally COMPOUNDED and con
fused.
"My last, you may recollect, was dated
from Philadelphia, and mentioned my ia.
trntion of making survey of Cor rather
philosophical tour, to and among the most
important parts of the Appalachian range
of mountains, in order to make observations
and chymical experiments on the almost in.
qualities which compose or are
adjacent to thenla: Accordingly on the 18th
of April LEFT Philadelphia, prepared With
instruments, &c. for the purpose, our mu-
tual friend L. R. accompanied me, with
man hired with horses to carry our baggage,
&c. As We of course should traverse the /,
or foot, we took the stage as tar
as bedford county. eYou will recoseCt I
in my former communication,
that had last sumraer. explored the Fit
.atinny Cor Blue mountains) the .Tuscarora,
Peters and Niscopes'; in one of which in
PARTICULAR, mineral os important worth.
ind of great consequence in the civilized
world, is TO be had in very consid srable
....nfiA,, with MANY orhers &C