An American Geological Railway Guide

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Excerpt from An American Geological Railway Guide: Giving the Geological Formation at Every Railway Station, With Altitudes Above Mean Tide-Water, Notes on Interesting Places on the Routes, and a Description of Each of the FormationsThe 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, 1886, he had prepared many of the chapters and collected some of the material for others for this second edition. By fol lowing 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.