A remarkable production of the discussion between theology and nineteenth-century geology; this book was one of the first great popular works on the new geology which holds the earth to be vastly old; it presents the new science as consistent with, indeed as a proof of, revelation. It centers on the iron-rich Silurian and Devonian formation of Scotland and South Wales, but serves as an introduction to the whole geology of Britain. First written as a series of articles in 1840, it was noted for the vivacity of its style. Miller expanded it through several editions; Gorgias reprints the posthumous edition of 1858, which adds Miller's essays, including his Presidential Address to the Geological Society: "Geological Evidence in Favour of Revealed Religion".

• AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' NOTICE TO THE NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION (page 5)
• TO TODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, Esq., F.R.S., Eto (page 9)
• AUTHOR'S PRFACE (page 11)
• CONTENTS: CHAPTER I (page 15)
• EXPLANATION OF THE SECTIONS AND PLATES (page 23)
• NEW WALKS IN AN OLD FIELD; OR THE OLD RED SANDSTONE (page 27)
• CHAPTER II (page 41)
• CHAPTER III (page 61)
• CHAPTER IV (page 87)
• CHAPTER V (page 117)
• CHAPTER VI (page 137)
• CHAPTER VII (page 151)
• CHAPTER VIII (page 169)
• CHAPTER IX (page 201)
• CHAPTER X (page 227)
• CHAPTER XI (page 244)
• CHAPTER XII (page 265)
• CHAPTER XIII (page 280)
• CHAPTER XIV (page 297)
• ICHTHYOLITES OF THE OLD RED SANDSTONE (page 315)
• NOTES (page 319)
• GEOLOGICAL PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF DEINBURGH (page 325)
• CONTENTS (page 327)
• GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES IN FAVOR OF REVEALED RELIGION (page 329)
• ON THE ANCIENT GRAUWACKE ROCKS OF SCOTLAND (page 341)
• ON THE RED SANDSTONE, MARBLE, AND QUARTZ DEPOSITS OF ASSYNT; WITH THEIR SUPPOSED ORGANISMS AND PROBABLE ANALOGUES (page 369)
• ON THE CORALS OF THE OOLITIC SYSTEM OF SCOTLAND (page 389)
• FOSSILIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF SCOTLAND (page 400)