"This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly……" — Archibald Geikie
"This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy."
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Archibald Geikie
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