THE ANALYST. 



A POPULAR SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE 

 COUNTY OF LEICESTER.* 



By J. B. Jukes, B.A., F.G.S. 



The design of the following sketch is not to convey any new in- 

 formation to the scientific geologist, but to lay before the general 

 reader a short and intelligible description of the geological facts to be 

 observed in the county of Leicester, and the inferences to be drawn 

 from them. The science of Geology has, by the labours of many 

 distinguished individuals during the last few years, aided by the ad- 

 vancement of the other natural sciences, been at length established 

 on a firm and certain foundation — its leading principles and general 

 outlines, as well as its most important conclusions, having been placed 

 beyond the reach of controversion. The knowledge, however, of 

 these principles and these conclusions is as yet possessed by com- 

 paratively few persons, even among the educated classes of mankind. 

 What is, therefore, more especially wanted at the present moment, 

 is to bring the matter home to every man's own door, to open his 

 eyes to the geological facts which everywhere surround him, and to 

 set him reasoning upon their causes of production. Geology is a 

 science that, more than any other, admits of being made popular in 

 every sense of the word ; for though in some portions of its range it 

 becomes matter for the profound and abstract speculations of the 

 mathematician and astronomer, in others it links itself in with the 



• This will probably be the first of a series of similar papers on the Geo- 

 logy of the Midland Counties. 



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