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deposited in horizontal beds, or strata ; while 

 the strata of the older rocks were generally 

 inclined at considerable angles. These floetz 

 rocks were again subdivided into old floetz and 

 new floetz ; and to the new floetz other writers 

 have given the name tertiary. 



" Though the distribution into the five series 

 or orders, which I gave you, is, I think, the 

 arrangement best suited to the science, yet it is 

 necessary that you should recollect these other 

 terms, because they are alluded to in almost 

 every work to which you will have to refer. But 

 I have given you quite enough for your first 

 lesson." 



As soon as I came back from our walk, I wrote 

 down all I could recollect of what my uncle had 

 told us ; and I have transcribed it here, in hopes 

 that it may interest dear Marianne: this, at all 

 events, will fix it more firmly in my own head. 



22nd. My aunt has just had some small 

 plants of the rosa Banksise put in the stove. 

 This rose tree grows in the most rapid manner 

 out of doors, and is a great ornament to the con- 

 servatory, one end of which it covers entirely with 

 its bunches of small white flowers tinged with 

 pink. It produced some shoots last autumn, of 

 nine or ten feet in length, which the gardener 

 tent downwards, and laying them in the ground, 



