Excerpt from The Building of an Island: Being a Sketch of the Geological Structure of the Danish West Indian Island of St. Croix, or Santa Cruz

There are doubtless many people who find it easy to understand that the vegetation of an island, its trees, shrubs and herbs with their ¿owers, may constitute a very attractive subject, and that the same may be true of its insects or its shells but it has, perhaps, never even occurred to them that the study of the solid-structure of the island can possess any great attraction. They have never asked themselves such questions as: What is beneath our feet? What is it made of? How came it there Is it a solid mass merely, or does it show arrangement of parts, and if so, of what parts, and how are those arranged? It is hoped by the writer that some at least of those who read these pages may come to see that such questions as these can be answered, and that the observations which we make in order to answer them lead to others, also of a very attractive character.

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