19 Preface وَإِلَى الجِبالِ كَيفَ نُصِبَتYusuf AliAnd at the Mountains,1 how they are fixed firm?—From every-day utility and affection in the Camel, to the utility in grandeur in the heavens above us, we had two instances touching our individual as well as our social lives. In the third instance, in the Mountains we come to the utility of mankind generally in the services the Mountains perform in storing water, in moderating climate, and in various other ways which it is the business of Physical Geography to investigate and describe.