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 and of the long succession of events with which it was crowded.

It is curious to remember that three of the poets whom I have singled out as illustrations of the influence of our lowland, upland, and highland scenery upon our literature have held up the geologist to ridicule. Cowper put that votary of science into the pillory among the irreligious crowd, about whose ears the poet loved to 'crack the satiric thong .' Wordsworth treated the geological enthusiast with withering scorn. Scott, in