Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — The Lowest Kocks. [ARTICLE]

The Lowest Kocks.

Granite is the lowest rock in the earth’s crust. It is the bed rock of the world. It shows no evidence of animal or vegetable life. It is from two to ten inches as thick as the united thickness of all the other rocks. It is the parent rock from which all, other rocks have been either directly or indirectly derived,— [New York Jnnmni.