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THIS volume of detailed rock-description, raising in its successive chapters questions of profound interest in philosophic geology, proves that the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom is confident that the scientific spirit should permeate its public work. None of the rocks dealt with possesses at present an economic value; most of the area is untraversed by roads, and the exposures are not to be sought in quarries, but in rain-swept uplands, or high on desolate mountain-walls. Yet no detail is regarded as unimportant; the surveyor, for months together, leads a life as hard and remote as that of an Alaskan pioneer; and the result is a book in which the daily difficulties are concealed, while an array of facts is given to us, any one of which may help observation in other and more favoured lands.
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COLE, G. THE HEART OF SKYE 1 . Nature 70, 506–508 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070506c0
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