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Thoughts on a Pebble, by Gideon Algernon Mantell

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THOUGHTS
ON A
PEBBLE

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REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE,
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS OF SCIENTIFIC WORKS,
KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.


Painted by J. J. Masquerier.
Engraved by Samuel Stepney.
GIDEON ALGERNON MANTELL, L.L.D. F.R.S
Vice-President of the Geological Society &c. &c.

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THOUGHTS
ON A
PEBBLE,
OR,
A FIRST LESSON IN GEOLOGY.

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BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY."

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The Nautilus and the Ammonite. Vide, p. 57.

"There is no picking up a pebble by the brook-side, without finding all nature inconnexion with it."

Contemplations of Nature.


EIGHTH EDITION; WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS.


LONDON:

REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.

1849.

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TO

MY SON,

Reginald Nebille Mantell, C.E.,

THESE

"THOUGHTS ON A PEBBLE"

ARE MOST AFFECTIONATELY

INSCRIBED.

LONDON,
19, CHESTER SQUARE, PIMLICO.
1849.

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"Every grain of sand is an immensity—every leaf a world—every insect anassemblage of incomprehensible effects in which reflection is lost."

Lavater.

"To the na

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