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sea level. It is possible, that the omnipresence of denudation 

 tends to induce those who only know at a distance of upheaval, 

 violence, and fi-acture, to make too little of their original ef- 

 fect upon surfaces which give no internal evidence of recent 

 disturbance. I have abstained fi'om speculating upon the condi- 

 tion in which denudation may have first found this part of the 

 country. For the probabilities in such cases I cannot do better 

 than refer the student to Prof. Green's " Manual for Students ;"* 

 but it is impossible to deny that the up-arching movement that 

 riiises countries above the sea may have been attended, in many 

 cases, by fi*acture and fissure. But of these I yet know of no 

 evidence in Tyncdalc. 



There is a beauty in these escarpments, point beyond point, 

 step below step, jetty beyond jetty. Sec them sometimes, 

 blackened by the shadows of evening, but with their outlines 

 overlaid and melted by the molten gold of the setting sun ; and 

 when, as I have sometimes seen the clouds are of that clustered 

 kind that are penetrated to the zenith by shafts of golden haze 

 from the effulgent sphere at the horizon, there are few more sug- 

 gestive moments in which to recall the sublime words of the old 

 Hebrew prophet ; — He that sitteth on the circle of the heaven — 

 that fainteth not, neither is weary — ''hatli compreliended the 

 dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in 

 scales." 



* ]). 421 of liit Kdition. 



