Delineation devalued by Smith’s quick returns
US: THE Isle of Wight is seen at lower right in the map illustrated here, which is part of the first large-scale geological map of any country ever issued, Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland... by William Smith.
Working as a surveyor with the Somerset Coal Canal at the end of the 18th century, Smith came to rea…