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beaches." And this leads to another inquiry: 

 "Are these other beaches older or newer than 

 the one represented by this tablet?" Many 

 are older and others newer; the newer ones 

 where they touch it always overlying, the 

 older ones underlying, the beach of this tab- 

 let; and no part of the continent but pos- 

 sesses its share of this wonderful history of 

 the past. The Rocky mountains in their 

 highest reaches bear upon their shoulders 

 these records of a former life under the seas. 

 Let us look at the subject from another 

 point of view. If we make a rough catalogue 

 of the stone quarries of Western Oregon, in- 

 cluding in our list only those that have been 

 worked sufficiently to give a fairly full set of 

 their fossils, we shall find one at Ashland, 

 one west of Medford, one at Jacksonville, 

 and one or two in Josephine county. In 

 Douglas county we find a notable exposure of 

 fossils on the North Umpqua, twenty miles 

 east of Roseburg; in Coos county we find one 

 at Cape Arago, another on Coos river, a 

 third on the Coquelle river. In the Willam- 



