First impressions of England and its people / By Hugh Miller.

  • Hugh Miller
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1847
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    taller.—Curious Incident.—Anecdote.—The Resuscitated Spinet.—* Forbearance of Little Samuel.—Dudley Museum ; singularly rich in .Silurian Fossils.—Megalichthys Hihherti.—Fossils from Mount Lebanon; yery modern compared with those of the Hill of Dud¬ ley.—Geology peculiarly fitted to revolutionize one’s Ideas of Mo¬ dern and Ancient.—Fossils of extreme Antiquity furnished by a Canadian Township that had no name twenty years ago.—Fossils from the Old Egyptian Desert found to be comparatively of yes¬ terday.—Dudley Castle and Castle-hill.—Cromwell’s Mission.— Castle finds a faithful Chronicler in an old Serving Maid.—Her Nar¬ rative.—Caves and Fossils of the Castle-hill.—Extensive Excava¬ tions.—Superiority of the Natural to the Artificial Cavern.—Fos¬ sils of the Scottish Grauwacke.—Analogy between the Female Lobster and the Trilobite.68 CHAPTER VI. Stourbridge.—Effect of Plutonic Convulsion on the surrounding Scenery.—Hagley; Description in the “ Seasons.”—Geology the true Anatomy of Landscape.'—Geologic Sketch of Hagley.—The Road to the Races.—The old Stone-cutter.—Thomson’s FIollow. —His Visits to Hagley.—Shenstone’s Urn.—Peculiarities of Taste founded often on a Substratum of Personal Character.—Illustra¬ tion.—Rousseau.—Pope’s Haunt.—Lyttleton’s high admiration of the Genius of Pope.—Description.—Singularly extensive and beau¬ tiful Landscape; drawn by Thomson.—Reflection.—Amazing mul¬ tiplicity of the Prospect illustrative of a Peculiarity in the De¬ scriptions of the ‘‘ Seasons.”—Addison’s Canon on Landscape; cor¬ roborated by Shenstone....87 CHAPTER VII. Hagley Parish Church.—The Sepulchral Marbles of the Lytteltons. —Epitaph on the Lady Lucy.—The Phrenological Doctrine of Ple- reditary Transmission; unsupported by History, save in a way in which History can be made to support anything.—-Thomas Lord Lyttelton ; his Moral Character a strange Contrast to that of his Father.—The Elder Lyttelton ; his Death-bed.—Aberrations of the younger Lord.—Strange Ghost Story; curious modes of ac¬ counting for it.—Return to Stourbridge.—Late Drive.—Hales Owen...114
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