THE MEETING-PLACE 



OF 



GEOLOGY AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER I 



GENERAL NATURE OF THE SUBJECT 



THE science of the earth and the history of man, 

 though cultivated by very different classes of 

 specialists and in very different ways, must have 

 their meeting-place. They must indeed not only 

 meet, but overlap and run abreast of each other 

 throughout nearly the whole time occupied by the 

 existence of man on the earth. The geologist, from 

 his point of view, studies all the stratified crust of 

 the earth, down to the mud deposited by last year's 

 river inundations. The historian, aided by the 

 archaeologist, has written and monumental evidence 

 carrying him back to the time of the earliest known 

 men, many thousands of years ago. Throughout all 



