1829. Poems written in the Leisure Hours of a Journeyman Mason. _Inverness._
1829. Letters on the Herring Fishery. _Inverness_ (reprint from _Inverness Courier_).
1835. Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland; or, The Traditional History of Cromarty. _Edinburgh._
1839. Letter from one of the Scottish People to the Right Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux, on the opinions expressed by his lordship on the Auchterarder case. _Edinburgh._
1839. The Whiggism of the Old School as exemplified by the Past History and Present Position of the Church of Scotland. _Edinburgh._
1841. The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field. _Edinburgh_ (republished from _Witness_).
1847. First Impressions of England and its People. _Edinburgh._
1847. Footprints of the Creator; or, the Asterolepis of Stromness. _London_, 1849.
1848. The Sites Bill and the Toleration Laws; being an Examination of the Resolutions of the Rev. Dr. Alexander of Argyle Square Chapel Congregation. _Edinburgh._
1848. Geology of the Bass Rock (section contributed to M'Crie's _History of the Bass Rock_). _Edinburgh._
1850. Thoughts on Education. _Edinburgh_ (republished from _Witness_.)
1852. My Schools and Schoolmasters; or, the Story of My Education (_Edinburgh_, 1854). _Popular_ edition by W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, _Edinburgh_, 1893.
1854. The Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. _Edinburgh_ (address to Royal Physical Society, 22 Nov. 1854).
1855. Geology versus Astronomy; or, the Conditions and the Periods; being a view of the Modifying Effects of Geological Discovery on the Old Astronomic Inferences respecting the Plurality of Inhabited Worlds. _Glasgow._
1857. The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in its bearing on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed. _Edinburgh_ (Twelve lectures before the Edinburgh Philosophical Society, British Association, 1855, etc.).
1858. The Cruise of the Betsey; or, A Summer Ramble among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Highlands; with Rambles of a Geologist, or Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. Edited by W. S. Symonds. _Edinburgh._
1859. Sketch Book of Popular Geology. Edited by Mrs. Miller. (Lectures delivered before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh.) _Edinburgh._