A Synopsis of Lectures on Geology, Comprising the Principles of the Science Designed as a Text Book Classic Reprint

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Geological works are, in general, voluminous and scarce, and the expense such, as not to comport with the means, or inclina tion of many who are desirous of obtaining some knowledge of this useful branch of science, hitherto almost novel in this part of the country. And very few of these are calculated for textbooks, in a popular course of lectures.

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