A Fife minister who spent his spare hours among the quarries of Fife sets out the geology of Scotland from the Grampian primary rocks through the Silurian, the Old Red Sandstone with its strange fishes, the yellow sandstone, trap rocks and coal measures, and reads the whole sequence as evidence of an Eternal Mind at work.
A characteristic early-Victorian attempt to reconcile geology and faith, written just before Darwin changed the debate. Download the free EPUB.