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 gratuitous assumption of great results from vague causes. Causes must be shown to be not only appropriate in quality, but sufficient in quantity before they can be safely accepted. But the geographic argument as expounded by the English school deals almost entirely with processes and neglects a large class of results that follow from these processes. Much attention is given to the methods of transferring the waste of the land to the sea and depositing it there in stratified masses, from which the history of ancient lands is determined. But the forms assumed by the wasting land have not been sufficiently examined. It was recognized in a general way that land forms were the product of denudation, but the enormous volume of material that had been washed off of the lands was hardly appreciated, and the great significance of the forms developed during the destruction of the land was not perceived.

Hutton says a little about the relation of topography to structure; Lyell says less. The systematic study of topography is largely American. There is opportunity for it in this country that is not easily found in Europe. The advance in this study has been made in two distinct steps: first, in the East about 1840; second, in the West about 1870. The first step was taken in that historic decade when our early State surveys accomplished their great work. The Pennsylvania surveyors then developed topography into a science, as Lesley tells us so eloquently in his rare little book "Coal and its Topography," 1856, which deserves to be brought more to the attention of the younger geographers and geologists of to-day. It presents in brief and picturesque form the topographical results of the first geological survey of Pennsylvania. It shows how Lesley and the other members of that survey "became not mineralogists, not miners, not learned in fossils, not geologists in the full sense of the word, but topographers, and topography became a science and was returned to Europe and presented to geology as an American invention. The passion with which we studied it is inconceivable, the details into which it leads us were infinite. Every township was a new monograph." (p. 125.) Some of the finest groups of canoes and zigzags developed on the folded beds of the Pennsylvania Appalachians are illustrated from studies made by Henderson, Whelpley and McKinley, and they certainly deserve the most attentive examination. I often feel that they have been of the greatest assistance in my own field work, especially in the efforts I have