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their beds for himself. He saw one of those fish lying 

 in a rocky ledge, but boggled at the toil necessary to 

 raise it up. However, after he went to Edinburgh he 

 wrote to me and asked me to raise it up, which I did ; 

 and he tells it in his Book. And yet ignorance says 

 that Hugh's scales belonged to one fish, and the head 

 bones to another ! 



" Four days ago I read in an Edinburgh paper a 

 paragraph in which it was said that a Mr. Salter had 

 been lecturing 'on the Order of Creation.' Towards 

 the close of the paragraph Mr. Salter is represented as 

 saying : ' Notwithstanding what had been said by the 

 lamented Hugh Miller, no true evidence of the existence 

 of a fish, or any vertebrate animal, was to be found in 

 rocks below the level of the Old Eed Sandstone.' Now, 

 this was not fair. All that Hugh said was on the 

 authority of those who said they knew. The bones I 

 found in August vindicate the truth as stated by Hugh, 

 and also the bones I found in October. I sent Sir 

 Roderick, in May 1863, one of the same bones with the 

 same kind .of scale sticking on it. I sent him also two 

 jaws, with many scales sticking on them." 



A few days later he says : " I am not satisfied 

 with that paragraph in the Edinburgh paper. It surely 

 could not be Mr. Salter that inserted it. No one is 

 better acquainted with geological matters than he is. 

 Sir Roderick's right-hand man ! What am I to think ? 

 Has Agassiz been imposed upon ? Has Sir Eoderick 

 published a dream ? ' No true evidence of a fish or any 

 vertebrate animal in rocks at a lower level than the Old 



