PREFACE. 



peculiarly his own, that I have not presumed to alter the text, 

 and have merely corrected some statements incidental to the 

 condition of geological knowledge at the time this work was 

 penned. The " Cruise of the Betsey" was written for that 

 well-known paper the " Witness" during the period when a 

 disputation productive of much bitter feeling waged between 

 the Free and Established Churches of Scotland.; but as the 

 Disruption and its history possesses little interest to a large 

 class of the readers of this work, who 'will rejoice to follow 

 their favourite author among the isles and rocks of the 

 " bonnie land," I have expunged some passages, which I am 

 assured the author would have omitted had he lived to 

 reprint this interesting narrative of his geological rambles. 

 HUGH MILLEE battled nobly for his faith while living. The 

 sword is in the scabbard : let it rest ! 



W. S. SYMONDS. 

 P.BNDOCK RECTORY, October 1, 1857. 



