Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . ened strength and determination of springy, elastic step with which he movedswiftly along the crowded pavement was that ofthe mountaineer rather than that of the nativeof a populous city. During the remaining fifteen years of his life,besides contributing largely to his paper Millerwrote his work on The Old Red Sandstone (1841),part of which appeared originally in ChamberssJournal and pa
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . ened strength and determination of springy, elastic step with which he movedswiftly along the crowded pavement was that ofthe mountaineer rather than that of the nativeof a populous city. During the remaining fifteen years of his life,besides contributing largely to his paper Millerwrote his work on The Old Red Sandstone (1841),part of which appeared originally in ChamberssJournal and part in the Witness. ProfessorHuxley wrote twenty years afterwards : The moreI study the fishes of the Old Red the more I amstruck with the patience and sagacity manifestedin Hugh Millers researches and by the naturalinsight, which in his case seems to have suppliedthe place of special anatomical knowledge. Along-projected visit to England in 1845 furnishedmaterial for his First Impressions of Englandand its People (1847). Then followed Footprintsof the Creator, or the Asterolepis of Strojnness(1850), a reply to the Vestiges of Creation, and astrenuous denial of the development theory ; Afy. HUGH MILLER. After the Painting by William Bonnar, Schools and Schoolmasters, an autobiography(1854) ; and The Testimony of the Rocks, com-pleted by him but not published till after hisdeath (24th December 1856). He had overtaskedhis brain, and for some time suffered fromvisions and delusions combined with paroxysmsof acute physical pain. In one of those momentsof disordered reason, awaking from a hideousdream, he shot himself through the heart. Severalposthumous works appeared—The Cruise of the 286 Hugh Miller Betsey, or a Sutntner Ramble among the Fossili-feroiis Deposits of the Hebrides (1858); the Sketch-Book of Popular Geology (1859); The Headshipof Christ (1861); Essays, reprinted from the Wit-ness (1862), and Leading Articles (1870); Tales andSketdus (1863) ; Edinburgh and its
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