AMERICAN PUBLISHERS’ NOTICE 
TO THE 
NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION. 
“Huan Mriiier’s ‘ Old Red Sandstone,’ to a beginner, is worth 
a thousand didactic treatises,” said Sir Roderick Impey Murchison 
in his Address before the British Geological Society. ‘No geolo- 
gist can peruse it without instruction and delight,” said Professor 
Benjamin Silliman in his American Journal of Science. Of the 
work thus commended by the highest authorities on both sides of 
the Atlantic, the American publishers now have the pleasure of 
presenting to the public a new and greatly improved edition. 
Geology is emphatically a growing science, and in the hands of no 
master did it ever grow more rapidly, or to better purpose, than in 
Hugh Miller’s. It thus happened that as edition after edition of his 
work was called for, he had new facts, new arguments, and new 
conclusions, wherewith to enrich its pages. Some of these were pre- 
sented in the prefaces to the successive editions, others were incor- 
porated with the text, and others took the form of notes. Since 
Mr. Miller’s death, a new edition has been given to the public by 
Mrs. Miller, with a preface from her own pen, notes by other hands, 
additional plates, and a large amount of new matter selected from 
Mr. Miller’s unpublished writings. The present American edition 
is re-printed from that; but, to avoid encumbering the volume, the 
