This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... THE GEOLOGY AND SCENEEY or THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. LECTURE I. No apology seems needed for the subject chosen for these lectures. In the city where Hutton speculated, where Playfair and Jameson lectured, where Miller and Maclaren wrote, Geology surely needs no excuse. To Scotsmen also the structure of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... THE GEOLOGY AND SCENEEY or THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. LECTURE I. No apology seems needed for the subject chosen for these lectures. In the city where Hutton speculated, where Playfair and Jameson lectured, where Miller and Maclaren wrote, Geology surely needs no excuse. To Scotsmen also the structure of their own land should be specially interesting. We pride ourselves on being a peculiar people, and, were we willing to forget it, our neighbours are not slow to remind us of the fact. Now, be our peculiarities good or bad--virtues or vices--they have been in part produced, in part encouraged, by the A character of the land in which we dwell. Like generous wine, they taste of the soil; they acquire new strength whenever they touch 'their mother-earth. We rejoice in the skill and industry which have carried the rich culture of the Lothians far up the steep sides of the Lammermuirs and Pentlands, --which have changed the skirts of Cairntable, where the Douglas defied the threats of England's proudest king, into fields of waving corn, and have converted the bleak wilds of Buchan, where the Bruce sought refuge in dire extremity, into storehouses of cattle and grain. Let me ask, What would this skill and industry have availed, had not the soil contained the elements of that fertility they were to draw forth? Look at the merchant-princess of the west, and tell me if Glasgow would have multiplied her people tenfold in a century, unless the great estuary of the Clyde had opened its bosom to fleets from many lands--unless she had possessed those stores of coal and iron that furnish the means and materials of her unceasing labours. And our ancient metropolis in the east--Were not the true foundations of Edinburgh then laid when internal fires pushed up..
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