Note 11 — Chapter II · PRELIMINARIES.
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How truly hieroglyphics—sacred carvings; (ieros, sacred, glupho, I carve;) and in this sense there is a holier meaning than Shakspeare could have dreamt of in his well-known lines, when applied by the geologist to his researches:—
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”