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Excerpt from Edinburgh and Its Neighbourhood, Geological and Historical: With the Geology of the Bass Rock I have at length the melancholy satisfaction of presenting to the reader the last of that series of works fit for publication left upon my hands by my beloved husband. Four of these, it will be remembered, - viz. The Cruise of the Betsey; The Headship of Christ; Essays, Historical and Critical, with the last issued volume of Tales and Sketches, - were prepared for the press by his own hand, although not in a convenient or portable form, the first three having appeared in the columns of the Witness newspaper; the last, in Wilson's Tales of the Borders. The remaining two, which were left in manuscript, - Lectures on Popular Geology, and a portion of the present work on the Geology of Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood, - I have made it a sacred duty to give to the world, according to the repeatedly expressed intention of their author; and I have had the less hesitation in fulfilling this task, because all his manuscripts, especially those prepared for delivery before a popular audience, were written with the utmost care, and required no revision or addition, unless in the shape of an occasional note, where any late discovery rendered a modification or explanation of the sense necessary or desirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.