VI AMERICAN PUBLISHERS NOTICE. 
the size of the volume, they add to its value no less. In each and 
all, the characteristics of their author’s genius are abundantly dis- 
played. The first paper presents a succinct summary of those 
evidences drawn from geology in favor of revealed religion, which it 
formed the chief portion of his peculiar mission to originate and 
establish. In the second is given a sketch of the early progress of 
general geologic knowledge in Scotland, together with a delightful 
account of his exploration of the valley of the Girvan. It is ger- 
mane to the subject of the twelfth chapter of “The Old Red 
Sandstone.” The paper on the Marbles of Assynt furnishes fine 
illustrations of Mr. Miller’s sagacity as a geologist, and of his unri- 
valled powers of description. The concluding paper presents a 
comprehensive survey of the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. 
In preparing this volume for the press, the publishers have varied 
in some few instances from the arrangement of the Edinburgh edi- 
tion. The four new plates which in that edition were appended to 
the Notes, have, with a view to convenience in this, been distributed 
through the body of the work at the points where they seemed most 
properly to belong. This arrangement made it necessary to re- 
number the old plates. One of the new cuts has been connected 
with a note in which it is specifically mentioned; and several foot- 
notes, most of them by Mr. Symonds, have been transferred from 
the body of the work to the “ Notes” at the end. These changes, it 
is believed, constitute a decided improvement. With the exception 
of these, and the abridgment of the multiplied prefaces, the present 
edition is a reprint of the new Edinburgh edition. 
Boston, April, 1858. 
