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Excerpt from Secrets of the Earth
In preparing this volume, it has been the author's purpose to present, not a technical treatise on geology, but rather certain phases of the subject and its related industries, which are of most interest to young readers. Every care has been taken to give only reliable inf orma tion; and in order to add spice some actual inci dents and anecdotes have been judiciously used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
