CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER 1). 
PAGH 
The Working-man’s true Policy. — His only Mode of acquiring 
Power. — The Exercise of the Faculties essential to Enjoy- 
ment. — No necessary Connection between Labor and Unhap- 
piness. — Narrative. — Scenes in a Quarry.— The two dead 
Birds. — Landscape. — Ripple Markings on a Sandstone Slab. 
— Boulder Stones. — Inferences derived from their water-worn - 
Appearance. — Sea-coast Section. — My first discovered Fossil. 
—Lias Deposit on the Shores of the Moray Frith. — Belem- 
nite. — Result of the Experience of half a Lifetime of Toil. — 
Advantages of a Wandering Profession in Connection with 
the Geology of a Country. — Geological Opportunities of the 
Stone-Mason. — Design of the present Work. : : 1-14 
CHAPTER’ ff. 
The Old Red Sandstone. — Till very lately its Existence as a dis- 
tinct Formation disputed.—Still little known.—Its great 
Importance in the Geological Scale. — Illustration, —The 
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