GEOLOGICAL EANGE 



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lines, their chief feeding ground, have borne upon 

 them. 



The Post-phocene and Estuarine deposits of the 

 Raised Beaches and the recently emerged tracts of 

 land have little to show in their facies of a different 

 character, excepting what might result from slight 

 changes of climate or in the nature of the sea-floor, 

 evidenced in the greater or less development of the 

 foraminiferal shells. 



