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wide knowledge of recent vegetation, it affords not only a general 

 view of ancient life, but enables us to sketch out the biological and 

 physical conditions which made up the life of Tertiary forests whose 

 scattered fragments were swept along by streams and rivers, to be 

 eventually buried in marine sediment. Their subsequent gradual 

 upraisal has brought them to light as relics of a past age, whose 

 records, if read aright, carry us back to a geological period when 

 Europe presented an aspect very different to that under which 

 we are accustomed to regard it. 



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