Introduction to British Clays Shales and Sands (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Introduction to British Clays Shales and Sands<br><br>To fulfil these conditions would require a work of such great magnitude that it could not be left to individual enterprise yet notwithstanding the large number of people interested in the subject the great and important industries dependent upon it and the amount of information in existence no book has yet been published in which British clays receive their proper share of attention. Usually these substances occupy a subsidiary position in works on geology or on brick or pottery manufacture and their importance is consequently overlooked.<br><br>This is in part due to the inherent difficulty of the subject and to its extent for though clays are found in almost every part of the British Isles their true constitution is even now not known with certainty and the characteristics of many of them require much more investigation than they have hitherto received.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.