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Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.


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To which is appended a series of geological papers read before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
Sketch-book of popular geology being a series of lectures delivered before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh (1859)
Popular geology: a series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh with Descriptive sketches from a geologist's portfolio (1859)
The headship of Christ and The rights of the Christian people (1860)
Tales and sketches (1862)
Edinburgh and its neighbourhood geological and historical; with the geology of the Bass rock (1863)
Essays historical and biographical political social literary and scientific (1865)
Sketch-book of popular geology (1869)
Hugh Miller's memoir : from stonemason to geologist by Hugh Miller (1995)
Hugh Miller and the controversies of Victorian science (1996). Before his death he wrote a poem called Strange but True. In 1840 the popular party in the Church with which he had been associated started a newspaper the Witness and Miller was called to be editor in Edinburgh a position which he retained till the end of his life.

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