Excerpt from Alphabet of Geology and Elements of Mineralogy: A Treatise Designed for Students at School or at Home, and Especially Adapted to the Advanced Classes of the Common SchoolsThe climate, soil and productions of the different countries are so varied, that we naturally expect the rocks to differ, but we find Wonderful uniformity everywhere. We find the upheaved granite and all other primary rocks the same in Europe, Asia and Africa, as in America, and the deposits of the precious metals are about equally accessible to all the inhabitants of the globe, iron, coal and the other useful minerals are very abundant.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.