摘要
THE lithological differences of eruptive rocks having already been described in Book Ⅱ.(p. 195), it is their larger features in the field that now require attention,--features which, in some cases, are readily ex-plicable by the action of modern volcanoes and which, in other cases, by bringing before us parts of the economy of volcanoes never observable in any recent cone, reveal deep-seated rock-structures that lie beneath the upper or volcanic zone of the terrestrial crust.