CHAPTER I.

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The Working-man's true Policy.--His only Mode of acquiring Power.--The Exercise of the Faculties essential to Enjoyment.--No necessary Connection between Labor and Unhappiness.--Narrative.--Scenes in a Quarry.--The two dead Birds.--Landscape.--Ripple Markings on a Sandstone Slab.--Boulder Stones.--Inferences derived from their water-worn Appearance.--Sea-coast Section.--My first discovered Fossil.--Lias Deposit on the Shores of the Moray Frith.--Belemnite.--Result of the Experience of half a Lifetime of Toil.--Advantages of a Wandering Profession in Connection with the Geology of a Country.--Geological Opportunities of the Stone-Mason.--Design of the present Work, 1-14