TO 



SIR CHAELES LTELL, F.E.S. F.G.S. &c. 



MY DEAR Sm CHARLES, 



A copy of your delightful Principles of Geology has been 

 my unvarying and instructive companion during ten years of 

 adventurous wanderings, during which everything I have seen 

 seems to me entirely confirmatory of your Geological views, 



I therefore dedicate this little book to you ; and I shall 

 esteem myself fortunate if any of the observations contained in 

 it shall be the means of rivetting or strengthening a link in 

 the beautiful chain of evidence by which you have in such a 

 masterly manner demonstrated the perfect adequacy of present 

 causes to remodel the surface of the earth. And with sincere 

 respect, 



I remain, 



My dear SIR CHARLES, 

 Yours very truly, 



JAMES LAMONT, F.G.S. 



KNOCKDOW, AEGTLESHIEE. 



