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THE attempt to unravel geological history, as far as the stratified rocks are concerned, and all the igneous rocks connected with them, simply resolves itself into this:-an effort to realise the physical geography of different geological epochs, to make out the relations of the sea and of the land with its plains and mountains during these periods, the history of the rivers and lakes of the time, and to know as much as may be known of all the creatures and of all the vegetation which inhabited the water and the land.
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The Physical History of the Rhine * . Nature 9, 471–474 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009471a0
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