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The Old Red Sandstone : Or New Walks in an Old Field, PDF eBook

The Old Red Sandstone : Or New Walks in an Old Field PDF

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

In the autumn of last year I sat down to write a few geological sketches for a newspaper; the accumulated facts of twenty years crowded upon me as I wrote, and the few sketches have expanded into a volume.

Permit mo, honoured Sir, to dedicate this volume to you.

Its imperfections are doubtless many, for it has been produced under many disadvantages; but it is not the men best qualified to decide regarding it whoso criticisms I fear most; and I am especially desirous to bring it under your notice, as of all geologists the most thoroughly acquainted with those ancient formations which it professes partially to describe.

I am, besides, desirous it should be known, - and this, I trust, from other motives than those of vanity, -that, when prosecuting my humble researches in obscurity and solitude, the present President of the Geological Society did not deem it beneath him to evince an interest in the results to which they led, and to encourage and assist the inquirer with his advice.

Accept, honoured Sir, my sincere thanks for your kindness.<br><br>Smith, the father of English Geology, loved to remark that he had been born upon the Oolite, - the formation whoso various deposits ho was the first to distinguish and describe, and from which, as from the meridian lino of the geographer, the geological scale has been graduated on both sides.

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