PRIARA ORs 
Wuen a Book is sent into the world, of whatever 
sort it may be, or however trivial, it is usual to 
solicit a favourable reception for it, from those, for 
whose perusal it is intended. To the common mo- 
tives for such an appeal, I feel, that I have many 
additional reasons to induce me to request this in- 
dulgence from the Public, in behalf of the following 
pages. For, professing myself but little acquainted 
with Geology, as a study, and remote from those 
sources from whence such knowledge might be ob- 
“tained, I have ventured on the subject; having been 
invited, as it were, by the circumstances around me: 
‘at a time when there are no books of established 
authority, and sufficiently explanatory, within my 
‘reach, to assist me in giving names to, or, in 
classing the numerous varieties of Organic Remains, 
which I have collected in this neighbourhood. In 
stating, however, that I have had access to no books, 
I must except ‘Parkinson’s Organic Remains of a 
