272 SKETCHES OF CREATION. 



the trees had been swept off ignorant of the history that 

 had passed, and which was even then, as now, in very prog 

 ress, and which was even then, as now, actually crowding 

 the forest upon the prairie, and bringing about the day 

 when, perhaps a thousand years hence, the prairies, like the 

 forests of Lancashire, will live only in history. 



