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at some day are to appear above the surface a storehouse 

 rich with fertiUzing ingredients for man's use. Some 

 day science will sound the depth to which this dead shell 

 has fallen, and the little creature will perhaps afford 

 solution for a problem a long time unsolved ; for it may 

 be the means of revealing the existence of the submarine 

 currents that have carried it off, and of enabling the 

 physical geographer to trace out the secret paths of the 

 sea. (Great applause). 



"Had I time, I might show how mountains, deserts, 

 winds, and water, when treated by this beautiful science, 

 all join in one universal harmony — for each one has its 

 part to perform in the great concert of nature. (Re- 

 newed applause). 



"The Church, ere physical geography had yet attained 

 to the dignity of a science in our schools, and even before 

 man had endowed it with a name, saw and appreciated 

 its dignity, — the virtue of its chief agents. What have 

 we heard chanted here in this grove by a thousand 

 voices this morning? — A song of praise, such as these 

 hills have not heard since the morning stars sang to- 

 gether: — the Benedicite of our Mother Church, invoking 

 the very agents whose workings and ofifices it is the 

 business of the physical geographer to study and point 

 out! In her services she teaches her children in their 

 songs of praise to call upon certain physical agents, 

 principals, in this newly established department of 

 human knowledge, — upon the waters above the firma- 

 ment; upon showers and dew; wind, fire, and heat; 

 winter and summer; frost and cold; ice and snow; night 

 and day; light and darkness; lightning and clouds; 

 mountains and hills; green things, trees, and plants; 



