ABSTRACT
PART III. REMARKS ON TIlE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF BARBADOS, AXD
A SKETCII OF ITS NATURAL PRODUCTIONS.
GEOLOGY, in a circumscribed meaning, is the science which Inake8 us acquainted with the structure, materials, relative position and arrangement of the solid crust of the globe; but in a higher Hense of the word it is that science which, according to the reasoning and investigation of Dlan, gives an account of the " successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature I." It is the history of our planet. As some important event, the occurrence of which we find chronicled in the pages of the past, conveys to us the cause of the rise and fall of nations and the extinction of languages, so the fOf111S of valleys and mountains, the configuration of coasts, speak in as legible a language, to those initiated in the book of Nature, of former convulsions and of changes which lie as distant, geologically speaking, from our present time as the historical event which was the cause that certain parts of Europe are now inhabited by Celtic, Teutonic or Gallic races.
