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;./, ! M,. ir generally calcareou* w;i&amp;gt;&amp;lt; - 

 by degrees, a bed of fine calcareous mud. To thfa 

 :i M i the dead shells of myriads of little molluscs that 

 flourished upon the Hme held by the waters, The bottom 



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//..-. i ; !/,; of UK- liikrlH, tlm gt tiK^H uu&amp;lt;i wl^ tt w&amp;lt;T&amp;lt;t vying 

 with *u:h othr in vimturhi^ into th waU*r, Th amphib- 

 J IM:- j u:-i, - put them both to whum by rahtiug tht&amp;lt;ir dirty 

 h&amp;lt; .-. I:- :-),&amp;lt;&amp;lt;( through the lime of the l.-ii- i = bottom. 

 And there they tttooij 4he / u I,. u|&amp;gt; to their kueej* in 

 v. :.ir, tiu l the *e4ge* un&amp;lt;i gnit&amp;gt;i ^areely over *hoe. 

 Ar. l t vtfry Jttiif and !-i-m which fell tjj. -M ih&amp;lt; water or run-l 

 iU way to the whore, became entangled in the herbage, and 

 lay down and rotted there; and the mi, and the *edge, 

 and gra*tf, when rshrill November came, 



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bowed 1 1,. i. I,. :!: in hi prepuce, and wrapped them^elve 

 in the eerementM that had gathered about them, Thu* a 

 I4O&amp;lt;1 IMC! of vegetable in ,ul-l inngtfd the lakelet, and over 

 lapped the deposit of marl which was growing beneath the 

 water, J Yom year to year, aw the water ^hallowed ^i.-.ni 

 the margins, encroaching vegetation crowded farther and 

 farther toward the centre of the lakelet, I have not ween 

 the beginning of thta proccgfl ; but at that period of time in 

 which I have been permitted to begin my observation*, T 

 find 1 1.- change* in progregg, I have delected Nature in 

 tntulMa re.hu*. The little herb standing by the water s brink 

 this year, dies, and forms a deposit exactly like that which 

 was formed in the year before my eyes or any human 

 eyes detected the character of these vicissitudes; and my 

 logic compels me to reason from that which I have seen to 

 that which no man has seen, And so it is of the changes 

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