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even with all th tt derived from an expensive education; or without 
admiring the ability with which this unassisted observer first succeeded 
in putting together the dislocated fragments of the very singular fish, 
called Pterichthys, by Agassiz, long before that creature was first un- 
derstood. Look again to the clear and general view which this author 
takes of the greatest of Scottish deposits, and how well he conveys to 
unpracticed readers a true idea of its position, importance and divisions, 
and you will agree with me, that in Mr. Hugh Miller we have to hail 
the accession to geological writers, of a man highly qualified to adyance 
ms science. Few persons, and too often least of all those who are, if I 
so speak, professed geologists, succeed in imparting to others, who 
have not studied the science, a clear conception of their views. In this 
Tespect the character of Mr. Miller’s work is admirable, for it portrays 
the means by. which the author acquired his knowledge, and from its 
persuasive manner, is worth to a beginner, a thousand didactic trea- 
tises.”” Professor Buckland, before the British Association, said, that 
“he had never been so much astonished by the powers of any man as 
he had been by the geological descriptions of Mr. Miller. That won- 
derful: man described these objects with a felicity which made him 
ashamed of the comparative meagreness and poverty of his own de- 
scriptions, which had cost him hours and days of labor. He would 
give his left hand to possess such powers of description as Mr. Miller, 
and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, 
would certainly render the science attractive and sor pa and do oe 
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and healthful moral feeling, a ESF Gait PS SE anguage, 
and a beautiful. a ee philosophy and poetry. No geologist can 
peruse this volume without instruction and delight. It affords an admi- 
table synopsis of the formations between the granitic schists and the 
coal measures, and indeed embraces an enlarged and highly philosoph- 
ical view of the science, and of its relation to the Creator. 
_ The splendid labors of Mr. Owen, and of Dr. Mantell, on paleon- 
pe i are duly appreciated by Mr. Murchison, as are the researches 
of Sir Philip Egerton; Mr. Strickland, Mr. Trimmer, and others 
We have not space even to name the deserved notices a eae are be- 
eo sn: eooieipiahamgiogy— the grand i map and descrip- 
tive volamses:of a. d the Paleontology of seins < the new 
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