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cone of Berwick Law, here the rounded eminence 
of Traprain; beyond Haddington the undulated 
ridge of the Garlton Hills. All these, with the 
isles and the mountains before observed, you 
perceive are igneous or trap rocks, while the plains 
through which they protrude belong to the “ coal 
formation,” or to some formation the precise station 
of which seems to puzzle those ingenious people, 
the geologists, who are perpetually building worlds 
and pulling them to pieces. The blaze of the 
eastern sky becomes more intense. Anon a flood 
of light streams from the edge of the ocean and 
now, emerging from the deep, slowly and steadily, 
mounts the great orb of day, until at length it 
clears the horizon and rolls upwards into the 
heavens, a glory in the full splendour of which your 
eyes are no more fitted to gaze than your intellect 
to contemplate the perfection of its Maker. Now 
just recollect all the beauties of the ancient 
mythology; fancy to yourself Apollo rising from 
the lap of Thetis, or “ Dan Sol ” with his golden 
wheeled chariot and fiery steeds, and think for a 
moment what a contemptible figure they make 
compared with that sun which now advances 
“rejoicing like a strong man to run a race,” that 
ocean which blazes with light, and that sky suffused 
with all glorious tints, from the intense brightness 
of its eastern region to the crimson of the light 
clouds that hover over the Firth and the purple 
blue of the western hills. Joy spreads over Nature. 
The lark carols in the sky, the mavis pours forth 
