the Edinburgh public. awakened unusual atten- a city where interest in scientific matters, and attendance...from years ago ascertained gneiss, covered by quartz rocks, with limestone, into overlying quartzose...cetacea by the savage natives. Further, where the city of Glasgow now stands, one of which may be seen...covering the site of the lower districts of the city, and receiving the waters of the river not lower...Western Asia ; nor do we find any trace of a great city older than Nineveh, or of a greatj Th{ kingdom that |