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CONTENTS.


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.—Cyathophyllum 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 Exterior; Interior not less impressive; Congreve's sublime Description.