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Excerpt from Handbook to the City of Dublin and the Surrounding District: Prepared for the Meeting of the British Association, September, 1908 The geology of the neighbourhood of Dublin has been several times described; and on the present occasion it seems desirable to furnish a general account, from which the visitor, though he may not be primarily a geologist, may gain some insight into the relations between the surface-features and the underlying structure of the country. Maps and Works of Reference. Dr. John Rutty, in his "Essay towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin" (2 vols., 1772), discussed the minerals and rocks from the point of view of their economic importance. R. Fraser published several geological observations on the Leinster chain and the drift gravels in his "General view of the agriculture and mineralogy, &c., of the County Wicklow" (Dublin, 1801). W. Fitton described "the geological structure in the vicinity of Dublin" in the first volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 1811, and reproduced the substance of his paper in 1812 in the form of a small book, entitled "Notes on the Mineralogy of part of the vicinity of Dublin." This is really a geological rather than a mineralogical essay, and includes notes from the papers of the Rev. Walter Stephens, of Dublin, and a coloured petrological map. 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.