Download or read book Strata Identified by Organized Fossils (Classic Reprint) written by William Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Strata Identified by Organized Fossils In a similar way, also, the benefits resulting from the science of Botany, have been equally limited, and likely to remain so, until those who grow the grasses shall take the trouble to distinguish one from another, or until those who know them scientifically shall condescend to become the cultivators. Nature furnishes the clue to each of these sciences, and to the most extensive application of their benefits. She has also given the Farmer other more easy. Helps, to much of the useful knowledge he requires. The method of knowing the Substrata from each other by their various substances imbedded, will consequently shew the difference in their soils - All this is attainable by rules the most correct, and easily learnt, and also the simplest and most extensive that can well be devised; for by the help of organized Fossils alone, a science is established with characters on which all must agree, as to the extent of the Strata in which they are imbedded, those characters are universal and a knowledge of them Opens the most extensive sources of information, without the necessity of deep reading, or the previous acquirement of difficult arts. 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.