OF

GEOLOGY:

OR, THE

MODERN CHANGES

OF THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS,

CONSIDERED AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF GEOLOGY.

BY

CHARLES LYELL, ESQ. F.R.S.

"Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been
uniform, and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general
movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been
changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the
rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same."

PLAYFAIR, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, § 374.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

THE SIXTH EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.