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does with the various sects into which the Christian religion 
is divided, can only in his own mind come to the conclusion 
that we, as he, have gods many, and that our superstitions 
are as numerous and our customs as variable as his own. 
This should not be, and various sects should never be per- 
initted to carry their bigotry and uncharitableness across 
the seas to unsettle native minds. 
Respecting customs and laws, I hold that nothing should 
be done to undermine law and order until the people are 
ready for the change. The institution of polygamy itself 
should, I believe, remain untouched, for where is the morality 
of teaching that a man, who has entered into legal respon- 
sibilities of such a character, should all at once be induced 
to repudiate his obligations, and to cast forth from his 
protection and support those who have the best right to it ? 
This is only one example from many which could be given, 
of the unthinking methods which are used by a civilised 
people in trying to reclaim, as they say, lower races. 
XIII. “ The Raised Sea-Bottom of Fillyside”—wesearches vn 
1869-70 and 1888. By James Bennik, of the Geological 
Survey of Scotland; with Lists of the Mollusca by 
ANbREW Scott. [Plate VIIL., Figs. 1-3.] 
(Read 16th March 1892.) 
The late Hugh Miller, on 17th December 1854, read a paper 
to this Society “ On a Raised Sea-Bottom at Fillyside Bank, 
between Leith and Portobello,” the title of which was only given 
in the Proceedings, vol. i., p. 5, but which was published in full 
in “ Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood,” in 1863. This paper 
I read shortly after its publication, and felt much interested 
in the things and conditions described in it; and resolved 
that, if fate gave me any chance, I would visit the place, and, 
for my own edification, have a rummage in this old sea-bottom. 
Accordingly, on my transference from Glasgow to Edinbureh 
in 1868, one of the first places I visited was Fillyside, and 
_examined as I then best could the section and conditions 
exposed at that time. They were essentially the same as 
