PART I 

 OUT-OF-DOOR WOKK 



(li II 



NT ESSAYS IN i : n i u 



udi the first essays of the observer 

 in the field should be mad inly upon 



tlu- nature of the district in which he finds himself 



arable ci: os, as 



stance in a wide i . with not a single 



quarry or natural owning to show even the nature of the 

 formations underneath, he \ertheless discover 



something to engage hi >n. Thus, he may find 



useful employment in watching the operations of the 

 streams which flow sluggishly through his neighbourhood, 

 their meanderings and the efforts they make to straighten 

 their courses, their varying quantity of mud, the <. 

 of floods, the evidence of successive deposits, and height- 

 ening of the flood -plain. Hut it will seldom happen 

 that he cannot in some way gain access to the geological 

 formations below t . e, and even in a flat and 



