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TO 



SIR CHAELES LTELL, F.E.S. F.G.S. &c. 



Mt beak Sie, Chasles, 



A copy of your delightful Principles of Geology has been 

 my unvarying and instructive companion during ten years of 

 adventurous ■wanderings, diu-ing which everything I have seen 

 seems to me entirely confirmatoiy of your Geologieal views, 



I therefore dedicate this little hook to you ; and I shall 

 esteem myself fortxmate if any of the observations contained in 

 it shall be the means of rivetting or strengtheniag a link in 

 the beautiful chain of evidence by which you have in such a 

 masterly manner demonstrated the perfect adequacy of present 

 causes to remodel the sm-face of the eai-th. And mth sincere 

 respect, 



I remain, 



My dear SiK Chables, 



Yours very truly, 



JAMES LAIMONT, F.G.S. 



KNOCKDOW, AsaylESHIEB. 



