Clarence King — Geologist 



geological structure, combined with 

 their still more difficult interpreta- 

 tion under the terms of the United 

 States mining laws, he was generally 

 intrusted with the legal as well as the 

 scientific management of the case. As 

 he made it a practice to never trust 

 the eye of another, but to verify every 

 fact by his own personal observation, 

 he obtained such a thorough know- 

 ledge of his subject that the most skill- 

 ful lawyers were unable to shake his 

 testimony by their cross-examination. 

 In his examination of mines, he vis- 

 ited almost every part of the Ameri- 

 can continent, and thus acquired a 

 personal familiarity with deep-seated 

 phenomena that it seldom falls to the 

 lot of a o-eolomst to obtain. Hence 

 he was exceptionally well equipped 

 in this, as in other respects, to carry 

 on the investigations he had under- 

 taken into the problems of the inte- 

 rior of the earth. 



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