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joy which he alone can experience, an example of ome 

 piece of geological strut tme *hi< h he has known only 



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In all this it i* not needful that he should claim to 

 be a geologist. He may not consider his observa- 

 tions worthy oi i professed geologists, < 

 may i n to publish them. 

 Hut none the less does he enj alike 

 bodily and inent.il, which geological work in the field 

 brings with it. Should he, however, deem it proper to 



lie world the benefit of his labours, he may 

 the satisfa adding to the sum of knowledge 



the thanks of geologists who will gladly admit 

 him of their number. More especially he should be 

 encouraged to publish his observations when t 

 to unvisited or little known regions, or to tracts wh< 

 has enjoyed exceptional advantages for studying geological 

 phenomena. 



Hut how is this geological experience to be acquired ? 

 How often do we meet with men who have read ex- 

 tensively in geology, yet if they are set down among the 

 rocks find themselves hopelessly adrift, and after some 

 despairing efforts to recognise in nature what seems so 

 clear in the diagrams of a text-book, give up the pursuit 

 in disgust On the other hand, how constantly arc 

 to be encountered who labour under the delusion that 

 nature is as easily read as the manual whose pages 

 have so ot r, and who proceed at once 



to quarry, hill n its geological 



(> with much more confidence than those would 



