Excerpt from The History of Devonshire Scenery: An Essay in Geographical Evolution
To geologists generally, but especially to those who are working in the same field, I hope these pages may be of interest and use, not only as the expression of conclusions to which I have come after many years' work in the County of Devon, but also as a summary of the problems presented by its complicated structure, and the various solutions of them which have been proposed.
Some of the views I have expressed are novel, and in certain instances I have felt compelled to dissent from explanations which others have offered. In such cases I have endeavoured to make clear my reasons for preferring a new interpretation of the facts observed, and have given references to the original papers concerned, so that the writer's arguments can be followed in full.
To students, I hope the book may be useful as supplying a simple connected narrative by which the facts of geology may be linked into a whole. This has been done in a different way by Professor Hull in his Contributions to the Physical History of the British Isles, and by Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne in his book The Building of the British Isles. To both of these works, but especially the latter, I must acknowledge considerable indebtedness when dealing with distant parts of the kingdom.
By confining myself mainly to a single district, it has been possible to give references to sections and scenes which may be visited within the limits of one or two summer vacations; and Devonshire is not only the county with which I am most familiar, but serves my purpose best, by illustrating a greater number of geological principles than any other.
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