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it into its present bed, through gently moving currents towards the 

 South-west. Ocean streams rolled these uncouth stones for ages at the 

 bottom of the "vasty deep;" frozen into glaciers, they have been pushed 

 along their snail-like pace ; adhering to icebergs and ice fields and ice 

 floes, they floated hither and thither through Northern seas, until the 

 ice dissolved in the genial warmth. Could we know their true history, 

 the " masquerade of the elements," the lost history of the world, would 

 be made plain as a well-conned lesson. 



The associated pieces of water- worn copper are " finger boards " tell- 

 ing- from whence they both came, and the direction of the ocean cur- 

 rents which deposited our drift. 



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