Excerpt from Geology of New York, Vol. 2: Comprising the Survey of the Second Geological District The Survey of new-york was indebted for its projection and execution to a movement in science a movement which pervaded the entire thinking com munity. It was one of those natural results which mark the progress Of truth, and in itself was an evidence of the progressive intelligence of the human mind. However much some may be disposed to credit this to individual enterprise, or to the suggestions of an unit in the body politic, still we cannot forbear paying tribute to the collective mind, for a state and condition prepared to appreciate the undertaking. This, however, is scarcely enough for individuals have done but little more than proclaim the general wish, or have acted only in Obedience to an impulse which pervaded community. The new-york survey was only a part of that movement which had taken possession of the intelligent of all classes. All the projects for discovery at home and abroad, in geography, physics and natural history, are themselves par ts only of one great series of movements, which date but little farther back than the commencement of the nineteenth century, and which have progressed until the present time. 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.