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northern world was in his hands. Among the finds of 

 this arctic region, almost needless now to say, the leaves 

 and cones of cypress are not wanting. You may see 

 some of them, if you please, yonder in Lausanne, in the 

 now forever silent workshop of Pastor Heer. The cy- 

 press was abundant in the tertiary all the way around 

 the arctic world. Point Lobos as we have seen was a 

 sea-bottom in those days, but before the tertiary had 

 passed away, the whole coast range of mountains had 

 risen from the ocean, Point Lobos of course with the 

 rest, all un-named, unvisited of men, a headland stand- 

 ing far out to sea. 



Some time near the close of the tertiary, these arctic 

 forests of Heer began a marvelous migration. The 

 climate of the polar regions began to change for reasons, 

 causes, who may tell? and as the isotherm came south 

 the several species followed, each on its own meridian. 

 Great Lakes in those times occupied the center of the 

 continent or perhaps even then, these lakes were drained 

 or draining, inducing the same desert conditions that 

 now mark all the central plains. Of cypress one only 

 species, or stock, went down the eastern coast as we have 

 seen, driven farther and farther by the oncoming age 

 of ice, others went down the western coast, far down into 

 Mexico, even; among the rest our Monterey species 

 driven coastward too ; caught at length, strangely enough, 

 between el Monte Diabolo and the deep sea, and there 

 it is to this day, a bit of jetsam, from the Mer de Glace 

 that one time made all central California like the present 

 arctic zone. "With the cypress went south the pines 

 too, probably, and the sequoias, and all the rest. Some 



