Excerpt from Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the State of Indiana: Made in the Year 1837, in Conformity to an Order of the Legislature
In perusing Geological Reports, the general reader is often at a loss to comprehend much of the matter they contain, as they are couched in language familiar only to those who may have devoted themselves to scientific pursuits. It is doubtless difficult, and in some cases almost impossible to describe scientific facts, without either employing scientific terms, or else entering into long and tedious explanations; yet the most important and practical among geological facts may be generally described in a plain and familiar manner. In this view the present observations on the Geology of Indiana are thrown into as popular and concise a form as possible, and the publication of more detailed scientific facts reserved for some future occasion, when the Geology of the country shall be farther developed.
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