by the REV. E. DONALD CARR. eighth edition . LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., LIMITED, 21 berners street , w. edinburgh : printed by lorimer and chalmers , 31 st. andrew square ....

In publishing the following account of “A Night in the Snow,” which has already been given as a Lecture before the Society for the Promotion of Religious and Useful Knowledge at Bridgnorth, I feel that some apology is due. My preservation through the night of the 29th of January last was doubtless most wonderful, and my experience perhaps almost without precedent, in this country at least; for, though many people have at different times been lost in the snow, scarcely any one has passed through

The mountains of South-West Shropshire are less known to the lovers of fine scenery than their great beauty deserves, though they are familiar to most geologists as the typical region of the lowest fossil-bearing deposits.  Of this group of hills the highest is the Long Mynd, a mountain district of very remarkable character, and many miles in extent.  It is about ten miles long, and from three to four miles in breadth.  Its summit is a wide expanse of table land, the highest part of which is nea