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Excerpt from The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion With Its Physical Geology A Quarter of a century ago the thoughts of geologists in this country were turned more earnestly than they had ever been before to the great problems of topography, and more particularly to the origin of valleys. In 1862 Jukes published his memorable paper on the River-Valleys of the South of Ireland, which may be regarded as the starting-point of all subsequent research on the subject. The following year there appeared the first edition of the Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain, by my former colleague and chief. Sir Andrew C. Ramsay, wherein the potency of denudation as a factor in the evolution of scenery was ably maintained. Papers enforcing similar doctrines were given to the world by my colleagues. Dr. Foster, Mr. Topley, and Mr. Whitaker. Though these views were only a reiteration and more detailed elaboration of the principles laid down by Hutton and Playfair, and were acknowledged to be so by those who espoused them, they encountered much opposition. 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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