Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 188
t be covered with a light loose soil.A very pretty and instructive example is shown in the diagramon the next page, which is an outline map of Michigan. Here the centre of the state is occupied by the coal measuresor formation, shown by the shaded portions, skirting this i a nar-row stratum of… … thus made near, or upon the surface, and carefully compared bymeans of the fossils which are found imbeded in them, that ge-ologists classify the various groups in the order we shall presentlyname, and, as each stratum is characterized by its peculiar fossils,and is never found taking the…
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