Water and Land (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Water and Land The object of this series, though it has been prepared with special reference to the young, and is written to a considerable extent in a narrative form, is not mainly to amuse the readers with the interest Of incident and ad venture, nor even to entertain them with accounts of en rions or wonderful phenomena, but to give to those who, though perhaps still young, have attained, in respect to their powers of observation and refiection, to a certain degree of development, some substantial and thorough instruction in respect to the fundamental principles of the sciences treated of in the several volumes. The pleas ure, therefore, which the readers of these pages will de rive from the perusal Of them, so far as the object which the author has in view is attained, will be that of under standing principles which will be in some respects new to them, and which it will Often require careful attention on their part fully to comprehend, and of perceiving sub sequently by means of these principles the import and significance of phenomena occurring around them which had before been mysterious or unmeaning. 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.