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Popular Philosophy; Or, the Book of Nature Laid Open Upon Christian Principles, by the Ed. of the Cheap Magazine
Popular Philosophy Or the Book of Nature Laid Open Upon Christian Principles by the Ed of the Cheap Magazine Author:George Miller General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI. HOCKS, PRIMARY. Wonderful simplicity observed by Nature in the construction of granite -- and in the materials of which the other rocky formations are composed. -- The study of Geology and Mineralogy becoming more and more popular -- Distinguishing characteristics of primary rocks. -- The solid and more compact kinds. -- An enumeration of some of them, with their various uses in the arts,« less