CONTENTS. 



BOOK ATLAS. 



NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE MOUNTAIN, OR WHAT THE MOUN- 

 TAIN IS IN A CRITICAL INVENTORY OF THE PLANET, SKELE- 

 TON, SKIN, APPENDAGES, AND CIRCULATING FLUIDS. 



CHAPTER I. 



GEOLOGY OF THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAIN. 



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Geography and topography of the Appalachian group ; separate 

 Chains ; geographic nomenclature ; discrepancies ; geological 

 and topographic continuities; topography of the Alleghany 

 Mountain proper; Appalachian ranges east and west of the 

 Alleghany Mountain ; general geology of the Appalachian 

 group with intervening valleys ; general distribution and to- 

 pography of the great sedimentary series of rocks; Appala- 

 chian waves and wrinkles ; general style of fracture and dis- 

 tribution, with law thereof; anticlinal and synclinal axes; 

 mountains, valleys, denudation, crimping of strata, laws 

 thereof; rending and crushing ; geological classification ; geo- 

 logy of Old and New Worlds ; parallelism of rocks in Europe 

 and America, or geological equivalence ; identity, etc. ; Eu- 

 ropean and American geologists; theorists; geological sugges- 

 tions; Silurian and Devonian groups; Americans geologists; 

 recitation of the formations of Pennsylvania from below up- 

 ward; numerical series; how it forms the surface of the State; 

 whole contour of the surface ; geographic distribution ; frac- 

 tures; topographic style of distribution of the rocks in different 

 parts of the State; upper portion of the series of rocks; coal- 

 fields and underlying formations, how arranged ; special geo- 

 logy of the Alleghany Mountain ; mineral masses forming the 

 body of the mountain; why the mountain is there; bituminous 

 coal-fields ; scientific significance of the mountain as a frag- 

 ment of the globe; how related; song of the rocks; whence, 

 whither, and how related to the whole ; scenery of the moun- 

 tain; elements of use and beauty; glory and grandeur of the 

 mountain ; great depository of life-forces ; health ; disease ; 

 final cause of the creation of the mountain 69 



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