Excerpt from The Naturalist in Siluria I dwell in a district of country remarkable for its rich ness in plant and animal life I mean, of course, the wild and indigenous. So varied and plentiful are the species that in these respects I venture to believe there is no other part of England, or, indeed, the United Kingdom, which can at all compare with it. This profusion is chiefly due to its peculiar geological features. As will be easily understood, the geology of any particular part of the earth's surface affects the character of its botany so much that the former may appropriately be termed the parent of the latter while, in turn, the plant-life may be regarded as the creator and nursing-mother of all that lives, moves, and hath being. If, for instance, some grand upheaval - volcanic, plutonic, or by whatever name called - have tossed to the surface a varied series of the stratified rocks which form the earth's crust, and left their tilted edges exposed to the atmosphere, there will spring up on them a varied vegetation, with animal life in like manner diversified. And it will also be obvious that the more abrupt the dip of the upheaved strata the greater Will be this variety within the limits of a given district; as, of course, the sharper the angle cf elevation the narrower the exposed surface of any particular stratum. 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.
