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Excerpt from The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain: Six Lectures to Working Men Delivered in the Royal School of Mines in 1863 HE first edition of these Lectures was printed from the shorthand report of Mr. I. Aldous Mays, and published with my consent. At his request I read and corrected the proof-sheets but being much occupied at the time with other necessary work, and not in perfect health, many imperfections and mistakes, and a few positive errors, escaped my notice. In this edition the whole 'has been thoroughly revised, corrected, and in parts almost rewritten, and a good deal Of fresh matter has been added, including a map, reduced for England from my own geological map, and for Scot land from the map by Sir Roderick Murchison and Mr. Geikie. My Object in delivering the original course, and in publishing this edition, has been to show how simple the geological structure Of Great Britain is in its. 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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