CHAPTER XIV.. The Cornstone Formation and Its Organisms.--Dwarf

The Cornstone Formation and its Organisms.--Dwarf Vegetation.--Cephalaspides.--Huge Lobster.--Habitats of the existing Crustacea.--No unapt representation of the Deposit of Balruddery, furnished by a land-locked Bay in the neighborhood of Cromarty.--Vast Space occupied by the Geological Formations.--Contrasted with the half-formed Deposits which represent the existing Creation.--Inference.--The formation of the Holoptychius.--Probable origin of its Siliceous Limestone.--Marked increase in the Bulk of the Existences of the System.--Conjectural Cause.--The Coal Measures.--The Limestone of Burdie House Conclusion, 243-259

Ichthyolites of the Old Red Sandstone--from Agassiz's "Poissons Fossiles," 261-288

EXPLANATIONS OF THE SECTIONS AND PLATES.