TO
RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, Esq.
F. R. S., F. G. S., &c. &c. &c.
I dedicate these pages to you, my dear Murchison, that you may have a renewed assurance of my great esteem and friendship for you. I should have had a livelier satisfaction in doing so, if the part I have had in the production of them, were more worthy of your refined taste. I hope to offer some compensation, however, in the assurance, that you will find in them many congenial opinions and principles.
G. W. Featherstonhaugh.
New-York, January 21, 1829.
