Mirror of Literature,  12 (1828), 106.

[Bishop Watson on Geologists]

Anon

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Geology, Error


    'Bishop Watson compares a geologist to a gnat mounted on an elephant, and laying down theories as to the whole internal structure of the vast animal, from the phenomena of the hide'.



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