Cuilliir— 
PHOSPHATE ROCKS OF SOUTH CAROLINA 
AND THE 
“GREAT CAROLINA MARL BED,” 
WITH FIVE COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. 
A POPULAR AND SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF THEIR ORIGIN, 
GEOLOGICAL POSITION AND AGE ; 
ALSO 
THEIR CHEMICAL CHARACTER AND AGRICULTURAL 
VALUE; 
Division of Mot 
TOGETHER WITH Sectional Then 
A HISTORY OF THEIR DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT. 
BY 
PRANCIS=S) WOERMES, A. M., 
OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. 
LATE PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY IN THE 
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. 
LECTURER ON GEOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY, 
CHARLESTON LYCEUM. 
“J lay it down as true that experimental philosophy is the only sure 
method of.investigating the laws of Nature. We can only at best collate 
facts, and then draw deductions which we call reasoning, but without these 
facts, obtained from experiment, our knowledge is futile.’ —J. B. Micrer. 
CHARLESTON, 5S. C.: 
PUBLISHED BY HOLMES’ BOOK HOUSE. 
1870. 
