E-text prepared by Eric Hutton, Greg Bergquist, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully preserved. Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The pointing finger symbol in the advertisement section is represented by -->. THE CRUISE OF THE BETSEY; Or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With RAMBLES OF A GEOLOGIST; Or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. by HUGH MILLER, LL. D., Author of "The Old Red Sandstone," "Footprints of the Creator," "My Schools and Schoolmasters," "The Testimony of the Rocks," Etc. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 59 Washington Street. New York: Sheldon and Company. Cincinnati: Geo. S. Blanchard. 1862. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by Gould and Lincoln, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Authorized Edition. By a special arrangement with the late Hugh Miller, Gould And Lincoln became the authorized American publishers of his works. By a similar arrangement made with the family since his decease, they will also publish his POSTHUMOUS WORKS, of which the present volume is the first. Electrotyped by W. F. Draper, Andover, Mass. Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Boston. PREFACE. Naturalists of every class know too well how HUGH MILLER died--the victim of an overworked brain; and how that bright and vigorous spirit was abruptly quenched forever. During the month of May (1857) Mrs. Miller came to Malvern, after recovering from the first shock of bereavement, in search of health and repose, and evidently hoping to do justice, on her recovery, to the literary remains of her husband. Unhappily the excitement and anxiety naturally attaching to a revision of her husband's works proved over much for one suffering under such recent trial, and from an affection of the brain and spine which ensued; and, in consequence, Mrs. Miller has been forbidden, for the present, to engage in any work of mental labor.