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of Geology” has been followed. Geology has been treated as a history=— 
a history of the geographical changes of the globe, or those of its eonli- 
nents and seas, through the successive ages, and also a history of the 
progress of life from the earliest species to Man; and the illustrations of 
the science have been mainly drawn from American rocks, so that the 
Although an abridgment of the “Manual,” it is not a patchwor. 
extracts from it. The whole has been entirely rewritten and thrown into 
other literary institutions, and not less those of the general rea 
would obtain a knowledge of geology without entering into 1 
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