Author: William H. Beckford

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-24

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780666274816

Excerpt from Leading Businessmen of New Haven As one gazes at the massive sides of East or West Rock, wonder at their abrupt termination naturally arises. At a period in the world's history, when its crust as yet had not had time to cool, parts of it were thinner than the rest. Through these spots the melted rock beneath, bursting out, often rose to a considerable height. The sand stone crust over the territory now occupied by East and West Rocks was displaced by huge masses of melted trap, pushed up by mighty volcanic action. Thus these great monuments of an unknown age were formed. After the volcanic period, this section of North America lay for centuries under a vast ice field, such as, on a smaller scale, are seen today in Greenland. Marvellous transition - from heat beyond our power to imagine, and universal agitation, to the calm and chill of a continent covered by mountains of ice. But so the world was tempered. Massive glaciers moved slowly over this region, and dropped piece by piece, in the shape of icebergs, into the sea, as they do at the poles today. When their appointed work was finished, vegetation, animal life, and man followed' in due season. 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.