THE BRIDGEWATER TREATISES

ON THE POWER, WISDOM, AND GOODNESS OF GOD, AS MANIFESTED IN THE CREATION.

TREATISE VI.

GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO NATURAL THEOLOGY.

BY THE LATE REV. WILLIAM BUCKLAND, D.D. F.R.S. &c.

DEAN OF WESTMINSTER.

EDITED BY HIS SON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I.

Third Edition.

"LET us take a survey of the principal fabric, viz. the Terraqueous Globe itself; a most stupendous work in every particular of it, which doth no less aggrandize its Maker than every curious complete workman doth its workman. Let us cast our eyes here and there, let us ransack all the Globe, let us with the greatest accuracy inspect every part thereof, search out the inmost secrets of any of the creatures, let us examine them with all our gauges, measure them with our nicest rules, pry into them with our microscopes and most exquisite instruments, still we find them to bear testimony to their infinite Workman."-DERHAM's Physico-Theology, Book II. p. 38.