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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
Led to convert an intended Voyage to Orkney into a Journey to England.
- Objects of the Journey. Carter Fell. - The Border Line. - Well
for England it should have been so doggedly maintained by the weaker
Country. Otterburn. The Mountain Limestone in England, what it
is not in Scotland, a true Mountain Limestone. -Scenery changes as
we enter the Coal Measures. - Wretched Weather. - Newcastle.
Methodists. Controversy on the Atonement. - The Popular Mind in
Scotland mainly developed by its Theology. - Newcastle Museum; rich
in its Geology and its Antiquities; both branches of one subject. -
Geologic History of the Roman Invasion. - Durham Cathedral. - The
Monuments of Nature greatly more enduring than those of Man. —Cya-
thophyllum Fungites. The Spotted Tubers, and what they indicated.
- The Destiny of a Nation involved in the Growth of a minute
Fungus.
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CHAPTER II.
Weather still miserably bad; suited to betray the frequent Poverty of
English Landscape. Gloomy Prospects of the Agriculturist. — Corn-
Law League. York; a true Sacerdotal City. - Cathedral; noble Ex-
terior; Interior not less impressive; Congreve's sublime Description. —-
Unpardonable Solecism. Procession. - Dean Cockburn; Crusade
against the Geologists.
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- Cathedral Service unworthy of the Cathedral.
- Walk on the City Ramparts. Flat Fertility of the surrounding
Country.
The more interesting Passages in the History of York sup-
plied by the Makers. - Robinson Crusoe. - Jeanie Deans. - Trial of
Aram's real Character widely different from that drawn
Eugene Aram.
by the Novelist.
Quaker Lady. - Peculiar
Quit York for Manchester. - A Character.
Feature in the Husbandry of the Cloth District. Leeds. Simplicity
manifested in the, Geologic Framework of English Scenery. - The De-
nuding Agencies almost invariably the sole Architects of the Landscape.
-Manchester; characteristic Peculiarities; the Irwell; Collegiate
Chura; light and elegant Proportions of the Building; its grotesque
Sculptures; these indicative of the Scepticism of the Age in which they
were produced. - St. Bartholomew's Day. - Sermon on Saints' Day.
-Timothy's Grandmother. The Puseyite a High Churchman become
earnest. Passengers of a Sunday Evening Train. - Sabbath Amuse-
ments not very conducive to Happiness. -- The Economic Value of the
Sabbath ill understood by the Utilitarian. -
the point.
Testimony of History on
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CHAPTER IV.
Quit Manchester for Wolverhampton.-Scenery of the New Red Sand-
stone; apparent Repetition of Pattern. The frequent Marshes of Eng-
land; curiously represented in the National Literature; Influence on
the National Superstitions. - Wolverhampton. - Peculiar Aspect of the
Dudley Coal-field; striking Passage in its History. - The Rise of Bir-
mingham into a great Manufacturing Town an Effect of the Develop
ment of its Mineral Treasures. - Upper Ludlow Deposit; Aymestry
Limestone; both Deposits of peculiar Interest to the Scotch Geologist.
-The Lingula Lewisii and Terebratula Wilsoni. - General Resem-
blance of the Silurian Fossils to those of the Mountain Limestone. —
First-born of the Vertebrata yet known. - Order of Creation. - The
Wren's Nest.-Fossils of the Wenlock Limestone ; in a State of beauti-
ful Keeping. — Anecdote. — Asaphus Caudatus ; common, it would seem,
to both the Silurian and Carboniferous Rocks. - Limestone Miners. —
Noble Gallery excavated in the Hill.
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CHAPTER V.
Dudley; significant Marks of the Mining Town. Kindly Scotch Land-
lady. — Temperance Coffee-house. - Little Samuel the Teetotaller. -
Curious Incident. — Anecdote. - The Resuscitated Spinet. - Forbear-
ance of little Samuel. - Dudley Museum; singularly rich in Silurian
Fossils. Megalichthys Hibberti. Fossils from Mount Lebanon; very
modern compared with those of the Hill of Dudley. — Geology pecu-
liarly fitted to revolutionize one's Ideas of Modern and Ancient. - Fos-
sils of extreme Antiquity furnished by a Canadian Township that had
no name twenty years ago. - Fossils from the Old Egyptian Desert found
to be comparatively of Yesterday. - Dudley Castle and Castle-hill. -
Cromwell's Mission. - Castle finds a faithful Chronicler in an old
Serving-maid. Her Narrative. - Caves and Fossils of the Castle-
hill. Extensive Excavations. - Superiority of the Natural to the Arti-
ficial Cavern. Fossils of the Scottish Grauwacke. - Analogy between
the Female Lobster and the Trilobite.
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CHAPTER VI.
Stourbridge. Effect of Plutonic Convulsion on the surrounding Scenery.
-Hagley; Description in the "Seasons."- Geology the true Anatomy
of Landscape.
Geologic Sketch of Hagley. - The Road to the Races.
The old Stone-cutter. Thomson's Hollow. His visits to Hagley.
Haunt.
scription.
Pope's
- De-
- Shenstone's Urn. - Peculiarities of Taste founded often on a Sub-
stratum of Personal Character. Illustration. - Rousseau.
Lyttelton's high Admiration of the Genius of Pope.
Singularly extensive and beautiful Landscape; drawn by
Thomson. Reflection. Amazing Multiplicity of the Prospect illus
trative of a Peculiarity in the Descriptions of the "Seasons."— Addi-
son's Canon on Landscape; corroborated by Shenstone.
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CHAPTER VII.
Hagley Parish Church. The Sepulchral Marbles of the Lytteltons. —
Epitaph on the Lady Lucy. — The Phrenological Doctrine of Hereditary
fransmission; unsupported by History, save in a way in which His-
tory can be made to support anything. Thomas Lord Lyttelton; his
Moral Character a strange Contrast to that of his Father. - The Elder
Lyttelton; his Death-bed. - Aberrations of the Younger Lord.
Strange Ghost Story; Curious Modes of accounting for it. - Return to
Stourbridge. Late Drive. - Hales Owen.
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CHAPTER VIII.
The one place naturally suggestive of
the other. Shenstone. The Leasowes his most elaborate Composi-
tion. The English Squire and his Mill. - Hales Owen Abbey; inter-
esting, as the Subject of one of Shenstone's larger Poems. The old
anti-Popish Feeling of England well exemplified by the Fact. - Its
Origin and History. - Decline. — Infidelity naturally favorable to the
Resuscitation and Reproduction of Popery. The two Naileresses.
Cecilia and Delia. - Skeleton Description of the Leasowes.- Poetic
The Spinster. - The Fountain.