id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 10251 Kingsley, Charles Town Geology .txt text/plain 44215 1757 76 ask, why I wish young men to learn Natural Science at all? And if you found in those coal-beds dead leaves and stems of plants, shores--under the sand hills, perhaps a bed of earth with shells and sure, let us look for new facts, and try whether our ice-dream will of sea-animals--how the ice-age helps to explain, and is again great coal-beds along the Rocky Mountains, for instance, are between the beds of coal, as you all know, the rock is principally sand, vegetable soil, recent sea-shells, and what not, forming, to a from the sea; to form a bed many feet thick, of what would be first lime-mud hardened into rock beds; you will see the shells embedded in the growing sand-rock; and then, it may be long years after, water into the sea, and form there beds either of fine mud or of breccia-- ./cache/10251.txt ./txt/10251.txt