between the latter and the recent deposits; and we must expect
these difficulties to increase rather than diminish with every
advance in our knowledge, and in proportion as gaps are filled up
in the series of geological records.

The annexed tabular view (Table 1/1) of the whole series of
fossiliferous strata will enable the reader to see at a glance the
chronological relation of the Recent and Pleistocene to the
antecedent periods. [Note 2.]


TABLE 1/1. STRATIFIED ROCKS.

KAINOZOIC OR TERTIARY:
Pleistocene and Recent.
Pliocene.
Miocene.
Oligocene.
Eocene.

MESOZOIC OR SECONDARY:
Cretaceous.
Jurassic.
Triassic.

PALAEOZOIC OR PRIMARY:
Permian.
Carboniferous.
Devonian or old Red Sandstone.
Silurian.