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Thoughts on a Pebble, or, A First Lesson in Geology

Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852· 2 chapters· 15,018 words

Well might our immortal Shakspeare talk of "_Sermons in stones_;" and Lavater exclaim, that "_Every grain of sand is an immensity_" and the author of 'Contemplations of Nature' remark, that "_there is no picking up a pebble by the brook-side without finding all nature in conne...

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2. PART II.

More thoughts on a pebble!--is not the subject exhausted? have not all the hieroglyphics impressed on the flint been interpreted?--can Science, like the fabled wand of the magic...

1. PART I.

Well might our immortal Shakspeare talk of "_Sermons in stones_;" and Lavater exclaim, that "_Every grain of sand is an immensity_" and the author of 'Contemplations of Nature'...