CHAPTER I.
THE STONE QUARRY
The ancient traveler and historian, Herodotus, long ago put on record the statement that he had heard from Egyptian priests that in a range of hills along the eastern border of their country the rocks contained buried sea shells. The priests contended that these shells were in such positions and numbers as to indicate that in some countries the sea and land had changed places.
The same thought occurs to-day to many an humble quarryman who disclaims all thought of geology, but who does know is stone quarry is nothing else than a petrified sea beach. Professor Leslie finely says, "Every rock fragment that lies upon the surface of the crust of the earth has legibly written on it and around it, the facts of its history if he would only study them." The evi-
