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THE STORY OF THE EARTH AND MAN. 



A glance at this table suffices to show that when 

 we read Hugh Miller's graphic descriptions of the 

 Old Red Sandstone of Scotland, with its numerous 

 and wonderful fishes, we have before us a formation 

 altogether distinct from that of Devonshire or the 

 Eifel. But the one represents the shallow, and the 

 other the deeper seas of the same period. We 

 learn this by careful tracing of the beds to their junc- 

 tion with, corresponding series, and by the occasional 

 occurrence of the characteristic fishes of the Scottish 

 strata in the English and German beds. In like 

 manner a geologist who explores the Gaspe sand- 

 stones or the New Brunswick shales has uider hi? 



