Popular Physical Geology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Popular Physical Geology

My excuse for putting forth an elementary work on Geology at all, must be, that there can hardly be too many elementary books which are the results, more or less com pletely, of actual experience, and not the mere compilation and compression of other books. I recollect, when leaving school for college, being advised by an eminent scholar to read as many (lg'ferent grammam as possible. Not that it was supposed that any of them would contain any large amou...