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| pearance and Character.—View from the Clent Hills.—Mr. Thomas Moss.—Geologic Peculiarities of the Landscape; Illustration.—The Scotch Drift.—Boulders; these transported by the Agency of Ice Floes.—Evidence of the Former Existence of a broad Ocean Channel.—The Geography of the Geologist.—Aspect of the Earth ever Changing.—Geography of the Palaeozoic Period; of the Secondary; of the Tertiary. —Ocean the great Agent of Change and Dilapidation. | 209 | |
| CHAPTER XII. | ||
| Geological Coloring of the Landscape.—Close Proximity in this Neighborhood of the various Geologic Systems.—The Oolite; its Medicinal Springs; how formed.—Cheltenham.—Strathpeffer.—The Saliferous System; its Organic Remains and Foot-prints.—Record of Curious Passages in the History of the Earlier Reptiles.—Salt Deposits.—Theory.—The Abstraction of Salt from the Sea on a large Scale probably necessary to the continued Existence of its Denizens.—Lower New Red Sandstone.—Great Geologic Revolution.—Elevation of the Trap.—Hills of Clent; Era of the Elevation.—Coal Measures; their three Forests in the Neighborhood of Wolverhampton.—Comparatively small Area of the Birmingham Coal-field.—Vast Coal-fields of the United States.—Berkeley's Prophecy.—Old Red Sandstone. —Silurian System.—Blank. | 229 | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | ||
| Birmingham; incessant Clamor of the Place.—Toy-shop of Britain; Serious Character of the Games in which its Toys are chiefly employed—Museum.—Liberality of the Scientific English.—Musical Genius of Birmingham.—Theory.—Controversy with the Yorkers.—Anecote.—The English Language spoken very variously by the English; | ||
