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a rapid pace the Beaver, the Apteryx, the Elephant, 



the Kangaroo, and the Ostrich. As we see no signs of 



decay so we must believe in the creation of new races 



as in the physical changes which constantly strike our 



attention. The great vital Progression has now 

 reached the Period where Man, of Divine Essence and 



Origin, rules supreme, and to whose insatiable mind 



his " Alma Mater " Nature has been and is still 



telling, 



" Come, wander with me — 

 Into regions yet untrod, 

 And read what is still unread 

 In the manuscripts of God." 



Jas, Forrester Anderson. 

 Melrose,^ Curepipe, 

 29th July 1885. 



