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30 The author's chief design in this treatise is to give an answer to the question, “Has the Earth acquired its present form from being originally in a fluid state?” This Edition is a complete revision of the former ones.

This work is recommended by the Syndicate of the Cambridge Local ''Examinations. The says the author “displays an intimate'' acquaintance with the difficulties likely to be felt, together with a singular aptitude in removing them.”

Published under the authority of Her Majesties Secretary of State for India, for use in the Government Schools and Colleges in India.

This little book has been constructed on one plan throughout, that of always giving in the simplest possible form the direct proof from the nature ''of the case. The axioms necessary to this simplicity have been assumed'' without hesitation, and no scruple has been felt as to the increase of their number, or the acceptance of as many elementary notions as ''common experience places past all doubt. The book differs most from estab&shy;lished'' teaching in its constructions, and in its early application of Arith&shy;metic to Geometry.

Routh. — With Numerous Examples. By, late