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Title: Principles of Geology
or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants
Considered as Illustrative of Geology

Author: Charles Lyell

Release Date: July 22, 2010 [EBook #33224]

Language: English

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PRINCIPLES

OF

GEOLOGY.

[Illustration: VIEW OF THE TEMPLE OF SERAPIS AT PUZZUOLI IN 1836.]

PRINCIPLES

OF

GEOLOGY;

OR,

THE MODERN CHANGES OF THE EARTH AND ITS
INHABITANTS

CONSIDERED AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF GEOLOGY.

BY

SIR CHARLES LYELL, M.A. F.R.S.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; AUTHOR OF
"A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY," "TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA,"
"A SECOND VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES," ETC. ETC.

NEW AND ENTIRELY REVISED EDITION.

ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, PLATES, AND WOODCUTS.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 346 & 348 BROADWAY.

M.DCCC.LIV.

"Vere scire est per causas scire."--BACON.

"The stony rocks are not primeval, but the daughters of Time."--LINNAEUS,
_Syst. Nat._ ed. 5, _Stockholm_, 1748, p. 219.

"Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of nature has been
uniform, and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general
movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents have
been changed in