Excerpt from Cause and Effect: Or, the Globe We Inhabit In the following pages he has endeavoured to describe in a plain and practical manner some of the actual cir cumstances from which that theory is deduced, and he presumes to hope. That the topics which are therein brought forward may be deemed sufficiently important to justify the consideration of geologists, and that they are so introduced as to be of some interest to the general reader. 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.