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during recent years indicate that this North Sea, which reappears on the 



ancient river-channel ran from the geological map ; the gravels yielding 



present Hook of Holland to East the roughly worked flints that served 



Anglia, and then turned northward, man as tools and weapons until the ages 



The remains of what is known as the which brought the discovery of metals. 



Forest Bed show that oaks and elms, Such, then, in aridness of summary, 



firs and beeches, with lush under- are the changes whose results are the 



growth, then flourished, and among features described at the outset of 



the obscure questions of palaeontology this paper, and as we strive so to read 



is the explanation of the commingling the story of an ageless past that the 



of fragments, never complete skeletons, landscape may become as a familiar 



of southern forms, as the elephant, face, the thought is brought home that 



hippopotamus, tiger and hyaena, with unlike Art, Nature suffers not by an- 



northern forms, as the musk ox, elk, alysis. In the discovery of her works 



and walrus. Unwelcome are the catches and ways, wonder attends on wonder ; 



of such relics, which, escaping the the deeper we penetrate the more 



" chafing gear " of the smacksmen, elusive does she become. In this lies 



play havoc with their nets. Leaving the charm. Better the pursuit than 



problem for fact, it is known that the quarry, for the attainment of full 



arctic conditions at last prevailed, knowledge might beget atrophy of the 



The ice fingers of the Glacial Epoch soul. As it is, ever on the quest, we 



gripped the northern hemisphere, and have, as reward, increase of desire 



the mighty glaciers, as they moved through delight, and quickening of 



southward, brought as cargo the com- inquiry. At our feet lies many an 



minuted stuff named Boulder clay, answer. As the Eternal revealed its 



From this come the miscellaneous presence to the prophet, not in the 



heaps of alien stones of the roadsides " great, strong wind that rent the 



and the fields ; these, commingled mountains and brake in pieces the 



with the waterworn flints yielded by rocks," neither in the earthquake nor 



the chalk, helping to make up the the fire, but in the " still, small voice," 



shingle terraces that fringe the seashore, so the operations of Nature are to 



These glacial clays are topped by the be sought in the quiet rather than 



latest deposits, muds and gravels laid the tumultuous agencies which have 



down by the rivers flowing into the modelled the earth. 



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