VII. An Account of the Mineralogy of the Faroe Islands

• Published in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Author: Allan, Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1815
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Faroe Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800019311; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800019311

Sir George Mackenzie having already given a paper, entitled, “An Account of some Geological Facts observed “in the Faroe Islands,” it may be necessary to explain why our communications were not combined in one. This was simply owing to our objects being in some measure dissimilar. He was anxious to compare the facts presented in a country decidedly volcanic, with those in a trap district, where no traces of a volcano were to be discovered; consequently, his observations were confined to particular facts: whereas my object is to describe, without relation to theory, whatever appeared to me interesting in a geological point of view.