duration, but extended over mayhap millenniums of centuries. No blank
chaotic gap of death and darkness separated the creation to which man
belongs from that of the old extinct elephant, hippopotamus, and hyaena;
for familiar animals such as the red deer, the roe, the fox, the wild
cat, and the badger, lived throughout the period which connected their
times with our own; and so I have been compelled to hold, that the days
of creation were not natural, but prophetic days, and stretched far back
into the bygone eternity. After in some degree committing myself to the
other side, I have yielded to evidence which I found it impossible to
resist; and such in this matter has been my inconsistency,--an
inconsistency of which the world has furnished examples in all the
sciences, and will, I trust, in its onward progress, continue to furnish
many more.

EDINBURGH, DECEMBER, 1856.

[The last proofs of this preface were despatched by the Author to his
printer only the day before that melancholy termination of his life, the
details of which will be found in the "MEMORIALS" following.--AM.
PUBLISHERS.]

CONTENTS.

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MEMORIALS OF THE DEATH AND CHARACTER OF HUGH MILLER, 7

LECTURE FIRST.

THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 33

LECTURE SECOND.

THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS, 86

LECTURE THIRD.

THE TWO RECORDS, MOSAIC AND GEOLOGICAL, 141

LECTURE FOURTH.

THE MOSAIC VISION OF CREATION, 179

LECTURE FIFTH.

GEOLOGY IN ITS BEARINGS ON THE TWO THEOLOGIES. PART I. 211

LECTURE SIXTH.

GEOLOGY IN ITS BEARINGS ON THE TWO THEOLOGIES. PART II. 237

LECTURE SEVENTH.

THE NOACHIAN DELUGE. PART I. 283

LECTURE EIGHTH.

THE NOACHIAN DELUGE. PART II. 320

LECTURE NINTH.

THE DISCOVERABLE AND THE REVEALED, 362

LECTURE TENTH.

THE GEOLOGY OF THE ANTI-GEOLOGISTS, 392

LECTURE ELEVENTH.

ON THE LESS KNOWN FOSSIL FLORAS OF SCOTLAND. PART I. 429

LECTURE TWELFTH.

ON THE LESS KNOWN FOSSIL FLORAS OF SCOTLAND. PART II. 463

List of Illustrations

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A Restoration of Sphenopteris affinis (_Fro