Liz THE OLD RED SANDSTONE. 
conformably on the Upper Old Red Sandstone. No other 
system interposed between them. 
There is a Rabbinical tradition that the sons of Tubal- 
Cain, taught by a prophet of the coming deluge, and unwil- 
ling that their father’s arts should be lost in it to posterity, 
erected two obelisks of brass, on which they inscribed a 
record of his discoveries, and that thus the learning of the 
family survived the cataclysm. The flood subsided, and the 
obelisks, sculptured from pinnacle to base, were found fast 
fixed in the rock. Now, the twin pyramids of the Old Red 
Sandstone, with their party-colored bars, and their thickly 
crowded inscriptions, belong to a period immensely more 
remote than that of the columns of the antediluvians, and 
they bear a more certain record. I have, perhaps, dwelt too 
.ong on their various compartments ; but the Artist by whom 
they have been erected, and who has preserved in them so 
wonderful a chronicle of his earlier works, has willed surely 
that they should be read, and I have perused but a small por- 
tion of the whole. Years must pass ere the entire record 
can be deciphered ; but, of all its curiously inseribed sen- 
tences, the result will prove the same — they will all be found 
to testify cf the Infinite Mind. 
