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one type of Celtic pony whose ancestral range 

 extended across the Straits of Dover. The 

 clay fens of Lincolnshire and of Holland still 

 have draught horses alike in build and in 

 colour. The hmestone districts north of the 

 Humber have the same tall horses as the similar 

 provinces across the water in Schleswig, Hol- 

 stein and Jutland. The granitic lands of 

 Scotland and Norway have one type of the 

 Celtic pony. (Low's Domesticated Animals.) 

 It is none of my business, but I cannot help 

 feeling that the flooding at about the same 

 period of the Lower Yukon and North River 

 Valleys is something more than a coincidence. 

 The Geological people are always cocksure that 

 the sea cannot rise, that an hemisphere — the 

 Southern, for example, cannot be flooded, 

 and they assume quite blandly that lands 

 have sunk, without explaining why. Their 

 theories never seem really to fit that mighty 

 wilderness, to which I have seen them comiC as 

 visitors or strangers. Science will never under- 

 stand until it learns to love. 



PART VIII. THE HUMAN INFLUENCE. 



We have now reached a stage of the argu- 

 ment which shows for Europe no continental 

 type like the Bay or the Dun, but a horse stock 

 of varied colouring, of diverse heights and 



