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Tiiis work, commenced in the year 1850, and issued on the first of March annually, contains all 

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THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR; or, The Asterolepis of 

 Stromness. With numerous Illustrations. By HUGH MILLER, author of " The Old Red 

 Sandstone," <fcc. From the third London Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by 

 Louis AGASSIZ. 12mo, cloth, 1,00. 



Dr. BucKLA.fD, at a meeting of the British Association, said he had never been so much aston- 

 ished in his life, by the powers of any man, as he had been by the geological descriptions of Mr. Miller. 

 That wonderful man described these objects with a facility which made him ashamed of the com- 

 parative meagreness and poverty of his own descriptions in the " Bridgewater Treatise," which had 

 cost him hours and days of labor. He would give his left hand to possess such powfrs of description 

 as this man : and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly ren- 

 der science attractive and popular, and do equal service to theology and geology. 



Mr. Miller's style is remarkably pleasing; his mode of popularizing geological knowledge unsur- 

 passed, perhaps unequalled; and the deep reverence for dirine revelation pervading all adds inter- 

 est and value to the volume. A". Y. Com. Advertiser. 



The publishers have again covered themselves with honor, by giving to the American public, with 

 the author's permission, an elegant reprint of a foreign work of science. "We earnestly bespeak for 

 this work a wide and free circulation among all who love science much and religion more. Puri- 

 tan Recorder. 



THE OLD RED SANDSTONE ; or, New Walks in an Old Field. By 

 HUGH MILLER. Illustrated with Plates and Geological Sections. 12mo, cloth, 1,00. 



Mr. Miller's exceedingly interesting book on this formation is just the sort of work to render any 

 subject popular. It is written in a remarkably pleasing style, and contains a wonderful amount of 

 information. Westminster Review. 



It is, withal, one of the most beautiful specimens of English composition to be found, conveying 

 information on a most difficult and profound science, in a style at once novel, pleasing, and elegant, 

 It contains the results of twenty years' close observation and experiment, resulting in an accumulation 

 of facts which not only dissipate some dark and knotty old theories with regard to ancient formations, 

 but establish the great truths of geology in more perfect and harmonious consistency with the greut 

 truths of revelation. Albany Sptctato*-. A. 



