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jaguar would haunt the Pyrenees. In the latitude of jVIont 

 Blanc, but on an island as far westward as central North America, 

 tree-ferns and parasitical Orchideae would thrive amidst the thick 

 woods. Even as far north as central Denmark, humming-birds 

 •vfould be seen fluttering about delicate flowers, and parrots feed- 

 ing amidst the evergreen woods ; and in the sea there, we should 

 have a Yoluta, and all the shells of large size and vigorous 

 growth. Nevertheless, on some islands only 360 miles northward 

 of our new Cape Horn in Denmark, a carcass buried in the 

 soil (or if washed into a shallow sea, and covered up with 

 mud) would be preserved perpetually frozen. If some bold 

 navigator attempted to penetrate northward of these islands, he 

 would run a thousand dangers amidst gigantic icebergs, on some 

 of which he would see great blocks of rock borne far away 

 from their original site. Anotlier island of large size in the 

 latitude of southern Scotland, but twice as far to the west, would 

 be " almost wholly covered with everlasting onow," and would 

 have each bay terminated by ice-clifls, wlience great masses 

 would be yearly detached : tliis island would boast only of a 

 little moss, grass, and burnet, and a titlark would be its only 

 land inhabitant. From our new Cape Horn in Denmark, a chain 

 of mountains, scarcely half the height of the Alps, would run in 

 a straight line due southward ; and on it3 western flank every 

 deep creek of the sea, or fiord, would end in " bold and astonish- 

 ing glaciers." These lonely channels would frequently rever- 

 berate with the falls of ice, and so often would great waves rush 

 along their coasts; numerous icebergs, some as tallascathedrals, 

 and occasionally loaded with "no inconsiderable blocks of rock," 

 would be stranded on the outlying islets ; at intervals violent 

 earthquakes would shoot prodigious masses of ice into the waters 

 below. Lastly, some Missionaries attempting to penetrate a long 

 arm of the sea, would behold the not lofty surrounding moun- 

 tains, sending down their many grand icy streams to the sea- 

 coast, and their progress in the boats would be checked by the 

 innumerable floating icebergs, some small and some great ; and 

 this would have occurred on our twenty-second of June, and 

 where the Lake of Geneva is now spread out !* 



* In the former edition and Appendix, I have given some facts on the 

 transportal of erratic boulders and icebergs in the Antarctic Ocean. This 



