Excerpt from The Farm Valuer While every farm or landed estate has a surface value, depending on soil, climate, situation, woods, and build ings, &c., it must not be forgotten that it may also have another and a second value, depending on the nature, abundance, and accessibility of the rocks and minerals below. From inability on the part of the purchaser or seller to estimate the capabilities in one or other of these directions, landed property is very often bought and sold much above and below its value. In valuing a farm or estate for purchase or sale, therefore, next to a knowledge of practical agriculture, there is nothing more requisite than a knowledge of surface geology, and of the different rock formations, and a right understanding of the law of superposition Of these rocks. The land surface may be worth only a few shillings per acre, but the presence below of coal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.