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of the marvellous history of days long past, of the elevatioQ of hills, and the 

 denudation of vallevs, of changes in river-beds and the sUting up of lakes, of the 

 carrying of boulder-rocks and the rending of cliffs, of the changes in the animals 

 that lived in the different epochs, and of the evidence of the lapse of unlimited 

 ages-of unnumbered ages occupied by different changes in the physical 

 geography of ancient lands and stas. than is to be gathered by one ^villing to 

 learn and work from the geology of the Rocks of Ross. 



