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THIRTY years have elapsed since the publication of the “Reports on the Geology of Jamaica,” by James G. Sawkins and others, with an appendix by Robert Etheridge; a work published as one of the “Memoirs of the Geological Survey.” In the work before us Mr. Robert T. Hill deals anew with the subject, his observations being based upon surveys made for Alexander Agassiz; and he has evidently spared no pains to investigate the geology and physical geography of the island in a thorough manner in accordance with modern knowledge. It is interesting to find him referring to the early paper written by De la Beche for the Geological Society in 1828 as “more in harmony with the conclusions to be presented by us than the subsequent and more extensive reports of the official surveys which supplanted them.”
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W., H. Geology of Jamaica 1 . Nature 61, 237–238 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061237b0
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