88 TOWN GEOLOGY. [in. 



land and sea, that maps representing Europe during 

 the greater part of that period (as far as we can guess 

 at it) look no more like Europe than like America or 

 the South Sea Islands. And this we can tell besides : 

 that that period was long enough for the Swiss Alps 

 to be lifted up at least 10,000 feet of their present 

 height. And that was a work which though God 

 could, if He willed it, have done it in a single day 

 we have proof positive was not done in less than ages, 

 beside which the mortal life of man is as the life of 

 the gnat which dances in the sun. 



And all this, and more as may be proved from 

 the geology of foreign countries happened between 

 the date of the boulder- clay, and that of the New Red 

 sandstone on which it rests. 



