VESTIGES

OF THE

NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION

BY

ROBERT CHAMBERS, LL.D.

AUTHOR OF ANCIENT SEA MARGINS; TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH; ETC.

Twelfth Edition

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION

RELATING TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE WORK

BY

ALEXANDER IRELAND

Author oF MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF R. W. EMERSON, ETC.

W. & R. CHAMBERS
LONDON AND EDINBURGH

1884

REPRINTED FROM THE LAST EDITION (THE ELEVENTH), AS FINALLY

REVISED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1860.