Front matter
Reading edition
THE STORY OF THE HILLS.
NORHAM CASTLE. After Turner.
THE STORY OF THE HILLS. A BOOK ABOUT MOUNTAINS FOR GENERAL READERS.
BY
Rev. H. N. HUTCHINSON, B.A., F.G.S. AUTHOR OF "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH."
With Sixteen Full-page Illustrations.
They are as a great and noble architecture, first giving shelter, comfort, and rest; and covered also with mighty sculpture and painted legend.—Ruskin.
New York: MACMILLAN AND CO. AND LONDON. 1892.
Copyright, 1891, By Macmillan and Co.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
TO ALL WHO LOVE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS This little Book is Dedicated,
IN THE HOPE THAT EVEN A SLIGHT KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR PLACE IN NATURE, AND PREVIOUS HISTORY, MAY ADD TO THE WONDER AND DELIGHT WITH WHICH WE LOOK UPON THESE NOBLE FEATURES OF THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH.