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compel him to say, with Kousseau " Si FAu- 

 teur de la Nature est grand dans les grandes 

 choses, il est tres-grand dans les petites." 



9. More profound still must be our admiration 

 of the discoveries effected through the Micro- 

 scope, when by its aid we discover that in His 

 past operations, the Author of all has been pleased 

 to employ these minute creatures, whether ani- 

 mal or vegetable, whether plants or shells, in 

 building up vast portions of His universe ! Thus 

 one wide region of the south of France, a great 

 portion of the Jura, the clay beds of London, 

 the wide-stretching chalk cliffs and downs of 

 the south of England, and innumerable moun- 

 tain masses of limestone, spread up and down 

 the island, are mainly made up of the remains 

 of such organisms. Almost the whole sea bottom 

 of the Levant is formed, and is still at this day 

 increasing in thickness, from their remains. The 

 accumulation of the deposits of infusoria is said 

 to be now choking up some of the harbours in 

 the Baltic Sea. And to conclude, the nummu- 

 litic limestone, forming a band often 1800 miles 

 in breadth, frequently of enormous thickness, 

 which stretches from the western shores of 



