A Manual of Elementary Geology: or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments

· 1875

2. Circumstances which combined to make the first cultivators of the science regard the former course of nature as different from the present, and the former changes of the earth's surface as the effects of agents different in kind and degree from those now acting, chap. v. 3. Whether the former variations in climate established by geology are explicable by reference to existing causes, chaps. vi. to viii.…

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