Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preamble
  • Introduction: Meeting place for waters and students of Earth history
  • Part I. Exploring New York State
  • Invitations to study the Earth's past
  • Natural sciences and civic virtues
  • The landlord and the ex-convict
  • Part II. Engineering for a New World's geology
  • Clinton's ditch
  • Eaton's agricultural and geological surveys
  • Empire State exports
  • Part III. Entertaining deep time and the sublime
  • Literary naturalists
  • Kindred spirits
  • Rocks, reverence, and religion
  • Conclusion: Echoes of New York's embrace of the geological imperative.