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difficulties of travel, no matter how rough." It has been 

 said of her that " had she not been part of him, she would 

 herself have been better known to fame." 



Lyell published, in 1838, the Elements of Geology, 

 but his books and papers are all either more or less 

 expansions of the epoch-making Principles, or observa- 

 tions which extend and confirm the theories enunciated 

 in it. He followed the ideas of Hutton, who said : 

 " I take things such as I find them at present, and 

 from these I reason with regard to that which must 

 have been." 



In 1834 he published two papers, " On the Proofs of the 

 Gradual Kising of the Land in Certain Parts of Sweden," 

 and " On the Cretaceous and Tertiary Strata of Zeeland 

 and Moe'n," after paying a visit to Sweden and Denmark. 

 Three years later he again visited Scandinavia ; and in 

 1841 he spent a year in the United States and Canada, 

 repeating the visit in 1845. These travels gave rise to 

 numerous geological papers, and to two books : Travels 

 in North America, published in 1845 ; and A Second 

 Visit to the United States, in 1849. In these works he 

 describes the American character and institutions, and his 

 adventures in the land of liberty. 



The same year that Louis Philippe abdicated, and the 

 kingdom of Poland was absorbed in Eussia, Germany, 

 and Austria, Lyell was knighted, and sixteen years later, 

 namely, in 1864, he received a baronetcy, but dying without 



