Excerpt from Final Report on the Geology and Mineralogy of the State of New Hampshire, 1844 The epigene rocks are all more or less distinctly stratified, and were deposited from water which originally held the particles in suspension or solution. The first deposits contain few, if any, remains of organized beings, either animal or vegetable. If any were originally contained in those rocks, their forms have been obliterated by the agency of heat, originating from the nether rocks. 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.