I regret to say that I don't have a copy of the 300-year-old book that
Terry Plemons mentioned, but it can be downloaded from Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=c5Q5AAAAcAAJ
Or just do a Google search for Woodward "Natural History of the
Earth". There's also a paperback 2010 reprint available from Amazon.
It's gotten really easy to make a facsimile reprint of a book as
either a PDF file or a paper book. I've done a two or three thousand
pages of that sort of thing for the Association for Mexican Cave
Studies.
Its full, old-fashioned title is "An Essay towards a Natural Hiſtory
of the Earth, and Terreſtrial Bodies, Eſpecially Minerals: As alſo
of the Sea, Rivers, and Springs. With an Account of the Universal
Deluge: And of the Effects that it had upon the Earth." London, second
edition 1702.
His research involved "taking a careful and exact view of Things on
all hands as they preſented; in order to inform my ſelf of the
preſent Condition of the Earth, and all Bodies contained in it, as far
as either Grotto's, or other Natural Caverns, or Mines, Quarries,
Colepits, and the like let me into it, and diſplayed to ſight the
interiour Parts of it."
Spoiler warning. It's all because of the Flood. -- Mixon
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