"In contemplation of created things

By steps we may ascend to God."

And it can surely be no unmeet preparation for such a scene, in humble faith to read the records of His doings which the Almighty has graven on the rocks around us. Many problems meet us on every hand problems which it seems impossible for us now to solve and as the circle of science ever widens, its enveloping circumference of difficulty and darkness widens in proportion. It is, doubtless, well that it should be so; for we are thus taught to regard our present state as imperfect and incomplete, and to long for that higher and happier one promised by the Redeemer to those that love Him, when "we shall know thoroughly even as we are thoroughly known."

TABLE OF FOSSILIFEROUS ROCKS.

LYELL'S Elements, p. 109.

1.
2.		RECENT.
POST-PLIOCENE.		POST-TERTIARY.
3.
4.		NEWER PLIOCENE.
OLDER PLIOCENE.		PLIOCENE.TERTIARY
or
CAINOZOIC.
5.
6.		UPPER MIOCENE.
LOWER MIOCENE.		MIOCENE.
7.
7.
8.		a UPPER EOCENE.
b MIDDLE EOCENE.
LOWER EOCENE.		EOCENE.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.		MAESTRICHT BEDS.
UPPER WHITE CHALK.
LOWER WHITE CHALK.
UPPER GREENSAND.
GAULT.
LOWER GREENSAND.
WEALDEN.		CRETACEOUS.SECONDARY
or
MESOZOIC.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.		PURBECK BEDS.
PORTLAND STONE.
KIMMERIDGE CLAY.
CORAL RAG.
OXFORD CLAY.
GREAT or BATH OOLITE.
INFERIOR OOLITE.
LIAS.		JURASSIC
24.
25.
26.		UPPER TRIAS.
MIDDLE TRIAS,
or
MUSCHELKALK.
LOWER TRIAS.		TRIASSIC.
27.PERMIAN,
or
MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE.		PERMIAN.PRIMARY
or
PALÆOZOIC.
28.
29.
COAL-MEASURES.
CARBONIFEROUS
LIMESTONE.		CARBONIFEROUS.
30.
31.		UPPER DEVONIAN.
LOWER "		DEVONIAN, or
OLD RED SANDSTONE.
32.
33.		UPPER SILURIAN.
LOWER "		SILURIAN.
34.
35.		UPPER CAMBRIAN.
LOWER "		CAMBRIAN.

Transcriber Note

Minor typos corrected. Some images moved to nearest paragraph break. A paragraph break was added to page [74] and [105] to accommodate placement of Figures [17] and [26] respectively. The missing anchor for the footnote on page [199] was added.