HUGH MILLER, 



AUTHOR OF " OLD RED SANDSTONE" AND " FOOT- 

 PRINTS OF THE CREATOR." 



The geological works of Hugh Miller have excited the great- 

 est interest, not only among scientific men, but also among 

 general readers. There is in them a freshness of conception, 

 a power of argumentation, a depth of thought, a purity of 

 feeling, rarely met with in works of that cHaracter, which 

 are well calculated to call forth sympathy, and to increase the 

 popularity of a science which has already done so much to 

 expand our views of the Plan of Creation. The scientific 

 illustrations i)ublislied by Mr Miller are most happily com- 

 bined with considerations of a higher order, rendering both 

 equally acceptable to the thinking reader. But whai) is in a 

 great degree peculiar to our author is the successful combi- 

 nation of Christian doctrines with pure scientific truths. On 

 that account his works deserve peculiar attention. His ge- 

 neralizations have nothing of the vagueness which too often 

 characterize the writings of those authors who have attempted 

 to make the results of science subservient to the cause of re- 

 ligion. Struck with the beauty of Mr Miller's works, it ha^ 

 for some time past been my w4sh to see them more exten- 

 sively circulated in this country ; and I have obtained leave 



