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Seven volumes of notes used for his Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut (1842).

Also containing 13 pages of geological maps.

Two volumes with geological notes on the territory from New Haven to New London along the shoreline.

Bound with marbled-paper covers and green leather spine.

Contents: To a young lady who had lent me Hayley's Triumphs of Temper. - Ode to melancholy. - Ode to fancy. - On viewing one summer evening the house of my nativity in a state of desertion. - Sonnets. - To a rose. - Ode on death. - Elegy. - Ode for the Fourth of July. - Ode to music. - On hearing a lady singing in the tow-r of Montevideo. - On the death of Miss __ who was drowned while bathing on Rockaway Beach. - Loch Maree. - On finding the Anamone Hepatica. - To the Gentiana Crinita the last flow-r of autumn. - To religion. - An imprecation. - Monody on Perry. - Other untitled verses. Many of these were first published in The Microscope, New Haven, 1820.

Contents: Catalogue of books. - Contents of Irving's Sketch Book. - Delineation of Scotland; extracts from the Beauties of Scotland. - Poem to Scotland. - Sales record of his Poems. 1821 - Sismondi, Literature du midi de l'Europe. - Notes on Spanish, Portuguese, German, Danish, and Italian literature. - Ode von Goethe zum Herrn Byron. - Languages and alphabets. - Aikin's British poets. - Hazlett's British poets. - Alphabets used in Webster's Dictionary. - Botany notes. - Rules for printing Arabic. - Linguistic notes on Danish Swedish, Russian, English, Wallachian, Romaic, Bulgarian. - Questions on Polit. econ. - Scotch literati 1792 by William Creech. - Welch grammar.

From Dr. Eli Ives' Materia Medica class; also notes of a journey through the Catskills.

Contents: The transactions of ye Linn. Soc. vol. 9. - Geological inquiries. - Aikin's Annual Review, vol. 7.

Contents: Summary of Buffon's History of animals. - Notices of works in Natural History from Ailin's Annual Review. - Review of Science of ye 18th cent. from Millar Retrospect. - Synopsis Avium Rari.