We take the origin of the word Folkstone to mean, that that old town was once built of the brick that may be made of the galt: it was the folk’s-stone. Footnote 107: “The Religion of Geology,” &c., by E. Hitchcock, LL.D. &c. p. 70. Footnote 108: Mantell’s “Geological Excursions,” p. 145. Footnote 109: Richardson, p. 391. Footnote 110: _Under-borne_ rocks; _upo_, below, and _ginomai_, to be formed. Footnote 111: _Middle life_ period: _mesos_, middle, and _zoos_, life. Footnote 112: Recent-life period: _kainŏs_, recent, and _zoos_, life. Footnote 113: Juke’s Practical Geology, p. 265. Footnote 114: Lyell’s Manual of Geology, pp. 97, 98. Footnote 115: Ansted’s Geology, vol. ii. p. 14. Footnote 116: Even Hitchcock’s good book is sadly disfigured and damaged, by trying to make geology prove too much. How can geology teach or suggest sin and the resurrection? Footnote 117: British Quarterly, Feb. 1852. Footnote 118: Owen’s British Fossil Mammals and Birds, p. 255. Footnote 119: Mantell, pp. 477–479. Footnote 120: Mantell, p. 471. Footnote 121: The skeleton is not more than 150 years old, and is probably one of an Indian who fell in war; and has been covered with carbonate of lime, held in solution in some spring. Footnote 122: Hugh Miller’s “First Impressions of England and its People,” p. 362. Footnote 123: No sooner did geology give signs of being able to speak from her subterranean abode, and say something new about the history of this old world, than Dr. Smith was among the foremost of the geologists, intent upon the interpretation of these mysterious, and at first incoherent sounds. At times the sounds seemed unscriptural, but his faith never failed; at other times it seemed in confirmation of Scripture, and he was filled with delight. There were sepulchres older than what he had accounted the era of death, and he must solve the mystery. Mineralogy, to which from his youth he had given considerable attention, became to him history more ancient than that of Moses, and poetry more fascinating than that of Homer. His minerals became books of wonderful tales; his fossils, before riddles of nature, the pictures of things in ancient worlds. The earth was a land of monuments, and the rock which before seemed nothing more than the solid masonry of the foundation on which men might build their dwellings, became the enduring chronicle of the millions of years in which extinct ages had risen, flourished and decayed. From that time he suffered no discovery of the geologists to escape his attention; and every valuable book upon the subject in English, German, or French, contributed its supplies to mitigate his insatiate craving after further information.