236 " TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS." CHAP. xv. 



here, and to such a degree that neither you nor I can 

 form any idea of his sufferings. Peace to him! He 

 will live long over all the earth." 



Again writing to his sister, he says, " Mrs. Miller has 

 sent me Hugh's last Testimony of the Hocks. I have 

 read it frequently. It contains a great deal of good 

 writing ; but it leaves the great point as far from being 

 settled as ever. I am surprised at his mode of handling 

 the two records the account of creation in Genesis, 

 and the facts as we actually find them; for it is an 

 undeniable fact that all our present dry lands are full 

 of dead animals. But don't mistake me. Mr. Miller 

 has produced an unmistakably clever book, which will 

 sell fast and become popular. But it does not solve the 

 great problem ; neither is it in harmony with the 

 account of creation recorded in the oldest book extant. 

 Nor will it convert geologists, and satisfy those who 

 know anything about rocks and organic remains. 



" Possibly the business cannot be settled in the 

 present stage of discovery, and friend Hugh had rather 

 too much veneration for sundry great living men, to strike 

 out a new path amid such an entangling forest of con- 

 flicting opinions. Of one thing you may be sure. The 

 earth, as we have it, was not made in six ordinary days. 

 The earth is making yet. It is still in course of creation." 



Strange to say, when the Life of Hugh Miller came 

 out, not a word was said about Eobert Dick. The 

 two had been in communication for more than ten years. 

 Dick returned to Mrs. Miller all the letters he had 

 received from her husband, for the purposes of the bio- 



