x PREFACE 



passing in rapid survey the influence of geology on the 

 question of the Deluge, and of the Deluge on the theories 

 of geology, it treats, in some detail, the latest views as 

 to the nature of this great catastrophe which have been 

 advanced by the great Viennese geologist, Edward Suess, 

 in his work, " The Face of the Earth." 



I cannot conclude this preface without confessing to a 

 fear that in some cases interest in the subject may seem 

 to have betrayed me into a momentary forgetfulness of 

 the respect due to great names. I should be sorry if this 

 were really so ; for my earliest teacher, the late Professor 

 Huxley, and for my latest master, Professor Suess, I have 

 but one feeling, that of deep and affectionate reverence ; 

 any appearance to the contrary must be set down to the 

 clumsiness of a geologist, who is more at home with the 

 hammer than the pen. 



