A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY:
Reading edition
OR,
THE ANCIENT CHANGES OF THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS
AS ILLUSTRATED BY GEOLOGICAL MONUMENTS.
by Sir CHARLES LYELL, M.A. F.R.S.
AUTHOR OF "PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY," "TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA," "A SECOND VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES," ETC. ETC.
"It is a philosophy which never rests—its law is progress: a point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow."
Edinburgh Review, No. 132. p. 83. July, 1837.
FOURTH AND ENTIRELY REVISED EDITION.
ILLUSTRATED WITH 500 WOODCUTS.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1852.
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