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Excerpt from Geology, Chapters of Earth History The Chief hope Of the writer is that this brief sketch may do something to add to the reader's interests by enabling him to find greater meaning in the scenes around him. The great merit of geology is.its power to attract its followers out into the country, to find food for the mind as well as exercise for the body among the sea-cliffs and On the mountain-side. However delightful the works Of the great pioneers Of the science may be to occupy the leisure hours at home - and they form no mean contribution to the literature Of the past century it is in the field that they acquire their full meaning and their fit surroundings. Probably no other science is so well calculated to form a healthy and manly hobby; none, certainly, is better fitted to enlarge one's perception of the beauties of Nature. 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.

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