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enormous pressure to which the latter have heen subjected, and which shews 

 itself in the flattened form of the trunks of trees which they contain, should 

 also be remembered. The "wood-hills" seen on the south shore of the island of 

 New Siberia, discovered in 1806 by Sirowatskoi, were described by Hedenstrom 

 as 30 fathoms in height, consisting of alternate layers of sandstone and bitu- 

 minous trunks of trees, of which those at the summit were in a vertical 

 position. The bed of driftwood is visible for seven wersts. (Wrangel, Reise 

 langs der Nordkiiste von Siberien in den Jahren 1820 1824, Th. i. S. 102 ; 

 or p. 486 of the second edit, of the English translation). 



( 328 ) p. 272. This coryplta, is the soyate (in aztec zoyatl), or the Palma 

 dulce of the natives ; see Humboldt and Bonpland, Synopsis Plant. jEquiuoct. 

 Orbis Novi, T. i. p. 302. A writer deeply versed in the American languages, 

 Professor Bnschmann, remarks, that the Palma soyate is so designated in 

 Yepe's " Vocabulario de la Lengua Othomi," and that the aztec word zoyatl 

 (Molina's Vocabulario en Lengua Mexicanay Castellana, p. 25) recurs in names 

 of places, such as Zoyai itlan and Zoyapanco, near Cliiapa. 



( 329 ) p. 272. At Baracoa and Cayos de Moya ; see the Admiral's journal 

 of November 25 and 27, 1492, and Humboldt, Examen critique de 1'Hist. de 

 la Geogr. du Nouveau Continent, T. ii. p. 252, and T. ii. p. 23. Columbus's 

 attention was so unremittingly alive to all natural objects, that he even dis- 

 tinguished (and was indeed the first who did so) between Podocarpus and 

 Finns - " I find," said he, ' en la tierra aspera del Cibao pinos que no llevan 

 pinas (fir-cones), pero por tal orden compuestos por naturaleza, que (los frutos) 

 parecen azeytunas del Axarafe de Sevilla/' "When the great botanist Richard 

 published his admirable memoir on Cycadese and Coniferse, he could scarcely 

 have imagined that before the time of L'Heritier, and even before the end of 

 the 15th century, Podo carpus had been separated from the Abietinese by ft 

 navigator of the 15th century. 



(S 30 ) p. 272. Charles Darwin, Journal of the Voyages of the Adventure 

 and Beagle, 1839, p. 271. 



(3 31 ) p. 273. Gcppert describes three other cycadese found in schistose 

 clay with brown coal of Altsattel and Commotau in Bohemia. They may possibly 

 belong to the Eocene period. (Page 16 of the work quoted in Note 320). 



P) p. 273. Buckland, Ueology, p. 509. 



P 3 ) p. 274. Leopold von Buch, in the Abhandl. der Akad. der Wiss. zn 

 Berlin aus den J. 1814 1815, S. 161, and in Poggp.ndorff s Annalen, Bd. ix. 

 S. 575 ; Elie de Beaumont, in the Annales des Sciences Nat. T. xix. p, 60. 



