Excerpt from Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, 1843, Vol. 2 Of modern geology; since it can be doubted by no one who observes in coal strata the accumulations of forests, which must have been drifted from land now submerged or who sees in the foot prints of tortoises, &c., on the horizon tal beds of the new red sandstone, proof of ancient strands or sandy bays: and in the relics of Saurians, in the Lias, equally striking attestations to the former existence of muddy estuaries, and yet who sees these bays and estuaries now elevated and dry land, though covered by other strata, which are as striking evidences of the subsequent existence of deep seas, as were afforded by preceding strata of shallow. 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.