Volcanoes

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Excerpt from Volcanoes: Their Structure and Significance Where it not that Nature sometimes supplies new material, there would be little excuse for another book on Volcanoes. The treatises of Daubeny and Scrope (to speak only of those in English) are not yet superannuated, the concise volume contributed by Professor Judd to the International Scientific Series is only seventeen years old, and while these chapters were being written Sir A. Geikie's work on British Volcanoes, and Professor I. C. Russell's on those of North America, made their appearance. The last two, however, are more or less restricted to special topics, and some eruptions of exceptional importance have occurred during the last twenty years, so that I have ventured to increase the literature on this interesting and, in some respects, very difficult subject. In writing this book, I have endeavoured to lead the reader through descriptions of the varied phenomena of volcanic action, in the present and in the past, towards ascertaining by inference the cause or causes of eruptions. 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.