Author: Amos Eaton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781330078105

Excerpt from Geological Text-Book, for Aiding the Study of North American Geology: Being a Systematic Arrangement of Facts Collected by the Author and His Pupils, Under the Patronage of the Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer Having printed this Text-Book with a slow pace (it being four months in the press) I have had an opportunity to detect, and indirectly to correct, many errors. Now, having the whole before me, I can discover some defects running through the whole. A mere compiler (having been the compiler of several works, I speak experimentally,) I say, a mere compiler has, comparatively, a continued "play-day" of authorship. Though I have attempted the subject matter of this work five times before, under different titles, every attempt was almost an original effort, on account of the continued accession of facts, which I was bound to include. In this edition I have attempted a larger stride than heretofore. - The new facts collected in the last two years, since additional experience has left me fewer excuses for error, and a thorough review of the most important localities, have enabled me to fill up more chasm and to demonstrate the order of superposition in more doubtful cases, than I have heretofore been enabled to do in the same period of time. My first and most particular, request is; that the reader erase the note at the bottom of page 17. I regret its publication exceedingly. I wrote it under a degree of excitement, produced by the remarks of a friend; and it was in print before I took time to reflect on the absurdity of introducing such remarks, however just, into a text-book for youth. 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.