of Geo: 
of thé deat 
intent or aim of Geological Science. It has been often said, that 
Geology is a history, the records of which are written m the — é 
rocks: and such is its highest department. But is this clearly ae 
baa 
appearance of man; and instead of saying 
to determine r 
into Ages, as has been so beautifully exhibited by Agassiz. The 
successive Fee in the progress of life are the great : 
histo: * 
f plants or 
appear to some extent in the preceding an poeta 
