================================================================= GINN & COMPANY PUBLISHERS * * * * * Transcriber's Notes This transcription was derived from the 1905 publication obtained from The Internet Archive. As the Index of the original 1905 book is missing entries for U and V, the Index from the 1921 version was used to add the missing sections. One error was noted in preparing this revision (page 493 under Hudson River should have been 417). Several hyphenated vs. unhyphenated forms were standardized to the most prevalent. Minor corrections were made where periods, commas, etc. were missing. A number of paragraphs which were split by images were rejoined. In some cases, the text was moved to the preceding or following page. As ALL CAPS was employed for the Chapter Titles in the original book, the small caps subchapter headings and Figure captions were not converted to all caps. The oe ligature in Coelenterates was converted to "oe". End of Project Gutenberg's The Elements of Geology, by William Harmon Norton