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Title: The Cruise of the Betsey
or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland

Author: Hugh Miller

Release Date: March 8, 2009 [eBook #28273]

Language: English

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THE CRUISE OF THE BETSEY;

Or,

A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides.

With

RAMBLES OF A GEOLOGIST;

Or,

Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous
Deposits of Scotland.

by

HUGH MILLER, LL. D.,

Author of "The Old Red Sandstone," "Footprints of the Creator,"
"My Schools and Schoolmasters," "The Testimony of the Rocks," Etc.

Boston:
Gould and Lincoln,
59 Washington Street.
New York: Sheldon and Company.
Cincinnati: Geo. S. Blanchard.
1862.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
Gould and Lincoln,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Authorized Edition.

By a special arrangement with the late Hugh Miller, Gould And Lincoln
became the authorized American publishers of his works. By a similar
arrangement made with the family since his decease, they will also
publish his POSTHUMOUS WORKS, of which the present volume is the first.

Electrotyped by W. F. Draper, Andover, Mass.

Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Boston.

PREFACE.

Naturalists of every class know too well how HUGH MILLER died--the
victim of an overworked brain; and how that bright and vigorous spirit
was abruptly quenched forever.

During the month of May (1857) Mrs. Miller