Types of scenery and their influence on literature (The Romanes lecture)

by Sir Archibald Geikie

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Excerpt from Types of Scenery and Their Influence on Literature Although geological details are not essential for the inquiry before us, nevertheless some knowledge of them will be found of service in enabling us to recog nize more clearly the essential features of a landscape, and to discriminate the real nature and extent of the diversities between the landscapes of different parts of the country. The fundamental elements of the scenery depend upon the nature and structure of the rocks show more that come to the surface, and the manifold varieties of external form arise from the constant succession of different geological formations. 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. show less