In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery.
Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this unseen universe to create an epochal and re.
He found That by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell--clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world--making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth.
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery