...passing away. If, as Sir John Herschel tells us ('Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy,') ' geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, iu the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy,' it owes this great distinction to the humility with...

...&c., of ditto. 250. GEOLOGICAL MAP OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPE. IT is observed by Sir John Herschel that ** Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy ' like Astronomy, too, its progress depends on the continual accumulation of observations carried on...

...DISSENTING COLLEGE AT HOMERTON. LONDON: JACKSON AND WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. MDCCCXXXIX. GEoLoGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy. SIR JOHM FW HEASCHEL. There is a knowledge which creates doubts that nothing but a larger knowledge...

...the opinion of Sir John Herschel, than whom no one is better qualified to judge on such a subject, " geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...ranks in the scale of the sciences next to astronomy." It is perhaps not reasonable to expect that minds to whom the science owes this proud distinction should...

...exercise and study. Sir John Herschel observes, in his Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, that " Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of sciences next to Astronomy." And when the scope, variety, and complication of the phenomena she presents...

...to the rocks and cliffs on the shore; to the beds exposed to our view in the excavations of a roadj to the very pebbles scattered in our path *,—all...to the latter science. The distances treated of in astronomy are so immense, and the time required for the completion of some of the celestial cycles...

...instrumental in imparting to them their actual form, or present arrangement. Sir John Herschel tells1 us, that geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...to the latter science. The distances treated of in astronomy are so immense, and the time required for the completion of some of the celestial cycles...

...DIVINITY TUTOR IN THE PEOTEBTANT DISSENTING COLLEGE AT HOMEHTON. NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & CO. 200 BROADWAY. GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy. Sm JOHN FW HBRSCHBL. There is a knowledge which creates doubts that nothing but a larger knowledge...

...WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. MDCCCXL. GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects which It treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy. SIR JOHN FW HERSCHED. There is a knowledge which creates doubts, that nothing but a larger knowledge...

...PYE SMITH, DDFGS DIVINITY TUTOB IN THE PBOTESTANT DISSENTING COLLEGE AT HOMZBTOlf. NEW-YORK: 211289 GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedty ranks, in the scate of the sciences, next to Astronomy. SIR JOHN FW HBRSCUEL. There is...