MANUAL 



OF 



ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY: 



OE, 



THE ANCIENT CHANGES OF THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS 

 AS ILLUSTRATED BY GEOLOGICAL MONUMENTS. 



BY SIR CHARLES LYELL, M.A. F.E.S. 



AUTHOR OF "PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY," ETC. 



" It is a philosophy which never rests— its law is progress : a point which yesterday was 

 invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." 



Edinburgh Review, July, 1837. 



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TERTIARY. SECONDARY. PRIMARY. 



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 1858. 



