Author : Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond
Release : 1907
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A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 write by Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond. This book was released on 1907. A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The French geologist Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history, working at the museum of natural history in Paris and as royal commissioner of mines. His enthusiasm for geology took him in 1784 to Britain, to investigate the basalt formations on the Hebridean island of Staffa described by Sir Joseph Banks in Pennant's Tour in Scotland (also reissued in this series). His subsequent account was published in France in 1797, and first translated into English in an abridged form in 1814. This two-volume annotated translation by the well-known geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), prefaced by a short biography of Faujas, was published in 1907. The work is interesting for its social as well as its geological observations. Volume 1 describes life in scientific circles in London, before recounting Faujas' journey to the Highlands of Scotland via Edinburgh and Glasgow.