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Excerpt from On the Connexion of Geology With Terrestrial Magnetism: Showing the General Polarity of Matter, the Meridional Structure of the Crystalline Rocks, Their Transactions, Movements and Dislocations; Including the Sedimentary Rocks, the Laws Regulating the Distribution of Metalliferous Formations, and Other Terrest The First Edition of this Work was published about eight years ago, and has been for some time out of print, and in consequence of the numerous applications from practical men (engineers and miners) for a New Edition, and the gratifying manner in which the principles of the Con nexion of Geology with Terrestrial Magnetism have been received and acknowledged by intelligent scientific men, and their important practical value to mining in all parts of the world, the Author has been induced to prepare this New Edition, with the hope of not only rendering these principles still more acceptable and useful to practical men, but also to show the necessity of revising what are called scientific doctrines, and bringing them Within the bounds of actual demonstrations and practical utility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.