concluded to send you the accompanying additional 

 extracts from the same paper ; it was kindly prepared 

 for me by Prof. Leidy, as a contribution to my work 

 on the fossils of South-Carolina. These extracts I 

 give now more cheerfully, as I find some time must 

 elapse before the number which will contain the 

 whole article can be published, with its numerous 

 illustrations. 



I have also added a few remarks of my own on 

 these interesting remains. 



Respectfully, 



FRANCIS S. HOLMES. 



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The post-pleiocene period is marked in the geolo- 

 gical sequence, as that interesting epoch when life 

 upon our globe was manifested in those organic 

 forms, chiefly of the same species, that belong to the 

 historical, or present period, and were obviously de- 

 signed " from the beginning " to be the cotemporaries 

 and companions of man, who appeared immediately 

 afterwards: "The crowning point of creation." 



It is the last formation of the cainozoic or tertiary, 

 the epoch just antecedent to the advent of man upon 

 this earth; a period in which, it may be said, the 

 earth had been finally prepared and made ready for 

 him who was to be formed in the likeness of the 

 Creator, and was to have dominion given him over 

 the "fish of the sea, the fowls of the air, the beasts of 

 the earth, the herb and every creeping thing, yea — 

 over all the earth;" a period that will ever be distin 

 guished as the grand connecting link between the 

 past and the present. 



