An American Geological Railway Guide by James Macfarlane Second Edition 1878 HC

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An American Geological Railway Guide by James Macfarlane Second Edition 1878 HC
An American Geological Railway Guide by James Macfarlane Second Edition 1878 Hard Cover 426 Pages   NOTICE the binding edgeis looses, The first few pages to that Table of contents have tape on the edge and are loose.
The first edition of this book was published by my father, the late James Macfarlane, in 1878 and, at the time of his death in October, 1885, he had prepared many of the chapters and collected some of the material for others for this second edition. By following the system of the work already completed, with the assistance of the gentlemen whose names appear throughout these pages, I have, after many delays, completed the edition.
The whole book has been carefully revised and new lines and new notes added, so that the Guide, proper, has been enlarged from 158 to 370 pages. The introductory portion of the book has been changed only where necessary to conform its statements to the views now held by geologists. The altitudes are a new and valuable feature of this edition and the list is as complete as could be obtained. A few chapters were so prepared by their authors that little work was needed before printing them, but in most instances the labor of collecting and arranging such a mass of material into a compact and harmonious form has been greater than would be imagined. Whatever defects and mistakes are found in the book may be attributed to the loss of the one whose mind conceived its plan, and who was peculiarly fitted for its preparation.
The geologist's traveling hand-book. An American geological railway guide, giving the geological formation at every railway station, with notes on interesting places on the routes, and a description of each of the formations
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