Excerpt from Geology In this Sixth Edition the book has again been revised and brought abreast of the onward progress of the science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Text-Book of Geology The present edition of this Textbook has been entirely revised, and in some portions recast or rewritten, so as to bring it abreast of the continuous advance of Geological Science. The additions made to the text, Which extend te every branch of the subject, increase the volume by about 150 pages. Care has been taken to preserve a characteristic feature of former editions by inserting references to the more important memoirs and papers, Where the student Will find fuller information than can be given in a Text-book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Geology of Cincinnati and Vicinity It is not to be expected, however, that the benefits of such a treatise shall be confined to those who are sufficiently advanced to read and comprehend it without help. The writer of a book cannot do in it the work of the classroom, but it is hard to conceive of a teacher of any grade of Geography or Nature Study as knowing what is in this book and then keeping entirely away from these subjects in his daily work. Perhaps this is more true of the general chapters which lend themselves to Nature Study than of the chapters treating Specifically of this area. For the last five years, classes of teachers from Cincinnati and near by cities have spent their Saturday forenoons at the University or in the field, studying this subject. In the amount of previous information with which they approached the subject, and in the nature of the in struction required, these people have doubtless been good representatives of the intelligent teacher and the intelligent business man. Much that follows was written not only with this class of people in mind but with these very individuals in mind, not so much as they are now since studying the subject, but as they came with very little but the interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from History of Geology To the introduction of printing, after the middle of the fifteenth century, must be attributed the great impetus given to learning, though we may discern no evidence of development in the mental capacity over the great philosophers of Greece and Rome. Many facts were, however, recorded in a promiscuous way, some with shrewd and rational explanations, others accompanied by ludicrous hypotheses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Elementary Geology To enforce still more strongly the remarks of Dr. Smith, in the unsolicited Introductory Notice of this work which follows, respecting the importance of an acquaintance with Geology to the minister and the missionary, I will quote a few sentences from the letters of two esteemed missionary friends now in ac five service in distant lands. Rev. Justin Perkins, American Missionary in Ooroomiah in Persia, under date of Oct. 1, 1839, thus writes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Introductory Text-Book of Geology Historical Geology the earlier chapters have been rewritten, and the others brought up to date; special stress has been laid upon the geographical and biological aspects of each of the geological systems and a special chapter has been de voted to the Glacial period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.