Line of the Section-Truro, the tin trade-Plymouth Sound,
the Breakwater-Dartmore- Mendip coal-basin - Transition
rocks-Pudding-stones-Alpine mountains of pebbles-Forma-
tion of rocks at Bognor-Inferior oolite-Origin of springs, their
agency in the hills near Bath-Fuller's-earth-The great oolite
used in St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey-Forest-marble-
Cornbrash-Oxford clay-Difficulty in obtaining water-Hills
formed by the lower oolites-Outliers, Dundry Hill, High
Down Middle oolites-Coal-rag-Madrepores-Cup-shaped
hollows in the oolitic freestone-Position of the Maestricht beds
-Upper oolites-Kimmeridge clay and coal-Coal-money-
Extent and situation of the beds of Portland-stone-Isle of
Portland-Isle of Purbeck-Stones exuding moisture-Im-
portance of self-cultivation-Contrast between the farmers of
the Chiltern hills and those of the vale of Aylesbury-
Conclusion.

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LIST OF

PLATES, MAPS, AND WOOD-CUTS.

VIGNETTE. The fossils here represented are copied from cabinet specimens and engravings.

Impression of Polypodium on shale, found in the coalmeasures of Lancashire, and supposed to be the production of a tropical climate.—-From Parkinson's Organic Remains.

Impression of Horsetail, (Equisetum.)-From Chamber's Dictionary.

Caryophyllia, or pink-like coralloid, a fossil of the lower oolite.-Nautilus Discus, a shell of the mountain-limestone.— Echinus, of the chalk.-Copied, by permission, from Ure's Geology.

Cockle-shell found in the chalk-pit, Rook's Hill, near Chichester.

Cactus from the Welsh coal-measures.

Embedded shells, locality unknown.

FRONTISPIECE.-Falls of the Velino, by permission, from

the Landscape Annual, 1831.

Map of the Land's End District, from Trans. Geol. Soc.

Section from the Land's End to the German Ocean,

The Logan-stone, from "A Guide to the Land's End" 336

from Conybeare

. 287

. 296

306

ERRATA.

Page 26, line 3, for "Peleponnesus," read Peloponnesus.

INTRODUCTION.

It is probable that some who may open this volume are already acquainted with Harry Beaufoy, either as a lively, intelligent child, who was encouraged to exercise the dawning powers of reason in observations tending to show that the marks of design and contrivance exhibited in the structure and habits of animals, are of such a nature as to assure us that benevolence, or the purpose of communicating happiness, must have been the motive which influenced the great Creator to bestow the gift of life on the countless multitude of beings he has formed; 1—or, they may have seen him at a more advanced period, improved in taste and understanding, familiar with the beautiful conceptions of poets and historians, and listening with interest to the evidences of that religion which

1 Harry Beaufoy.

teaches us that the Earth, furnished as it it with all that can delight the senses, and contribute to the sustenance of man, is designed-at least in its present state to afford him a habitation during only a very small part of his existence. 1

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To persons who have already this knowledge of his character, it need not be said that Harry was no vulgar boy"-that the cheerful buoyancy of youthful spirits often gave place to deep emotions, excited by causes which have no power to awaken such feelings in an unreflecting mind. At the age of fifteen he bore a striking resemblance to the character of Beattie's Edwin. Like him,

"whate'er of beautiful or new,

Sublime or dreadful, in earth, sea, or sky,
By chance, or search, was offered to his view,
He scann'd with curious and romantic eye.
Whate'er of lore tradition could supply
From Gothic tale, or song, or fable old,
Roused him, still keen, to listen and to pry."

But though possessing this poetical temperament, it was not the wish of his parents that their son should be a poet; and without offering any violence to the natural bias of his mind, they en

1 Familiar Illustrations of the Evidences and Design of Christianity.