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the minor irregularities of the primary rocks. Here and 

 there a square buttress of huge proportions leans against 

 the front of some low-browed crag, that seems little to need 

 any such support, and casts a length of shadow athwart its 

 face. There opens along the base of the rock a line of 

 rounded shallow caves, or what seem rather the openings of 

 caves not yet dug, and which testify of a period, when the 

 sea stood about thirty feet higher on the coasts than at 

 present. 



The higher summits of the formation are well nigh as bare 

 as those of the primary rocks ; and except when covered 

 with diluvium, it seems little friendly to vegetation. 



With these extracts, we will take our leave of a volume, 

 the perusal of which has given us more satisfaction than or- 

 dinary, and which to say the least of it — and that with more 

 especial reference to its literary merits — =proves one of the 

 ablest advocates of geology ; we have put it in the hands of 

 many friends, strangers to the beauties of this science, and 

 Mr. Miller's "New walks in an Old Field" have converted 

 their heathenism, and added new votaries to the number of 

 the adherents of Geology. 



